justifying

noun

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"justifying" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“justifying” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,875
frequency rank, English
796
“J” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A process of justification.

Corpus desk

Index EN-justifying · justifying · English

justifying · rank #19,875 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,875
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-MID 796
  • PHOTO-FINISH Julien

Nearest frequency peer: Julien (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “justifying”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “justifying” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for justifying
PropertyValue
Headwordjustifying
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Frequency rank#19,875
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “justifying”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).justifyinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Same rarity band neighbours include “Julien” (#19,874), “Kapoor” (#19,876), “journalistic” (#19,873). Among 796 “J” headwords, “justifying” is #19,875. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around justifying, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,875 among 796 “J” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A process of justification.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for justifying, with forms such as "jjustifying", "jsutifying", and "jusitfying". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is justifying, spelled J-U-S-T-I-F-Y-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    A process of justification.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how justifying appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. So very precocious was the youth's sagacity, and premature his opinions; but of course, so surrounded, so employed, hearing of nothing but oppressions, and complainings, and justifyings, the bias was inevitable.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • jjustifying
  • jsutifying
  • jusitfying
  • jusstifying
  • justfiying
  • justiffying
  • justifiyng
  • justifyign
  • justifyingg
  • justifyinng
  • justifynig
  • justifyying
  • justiyfing
  • justtifying
  • jutsifying
  • ujstifying

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of justifying - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

jjustifying1jsutifying2jusitfying2jusstifying1justfiying2justiffying1justifiyng2justifyign2
Edit distance from "justifying"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justifying"?
"justifying" is spelled J-U-S-T-I-F-Y-I-N-G.
What does "justifying" mean?
As a noun, "justifying" means: A process of justification.
What are common misspellings of "justifying"?
Common misspellings include "jjustifying", "jsutifying", "jusitfying", "jusstifying", "justfiying". The correct spelling is "justifying".
What language does "justifying" come from?
"justifying" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "justifying", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ineligible#19,868improbable#19,865generously#19,846modulation#19,908

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

dishwasher16 variantsretrospect16 variantsunspecified16 variantstightening16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list