Justine
"justine" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Justine” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,836. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,836
- frequency rank, English
- 796
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Latin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-justine · Justine · English
Justine · rank #21,836 · 10 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,836
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 796
- PHOTO-FINISH Jesuit
Nearest frequency peer: Jesuit (-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 “Justine”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ire
ire
78,167 corpus weight
- Jesuit
Jesuit
78,166 corpus weight
- Justine
Justine
78,165 corpus weight
- kiddo
kiddo
78,163 corpus weight
- Kimmel
Kimmel
78,162 corpus weight
- knuckle
knuckle
78,161 corpus weight
What this shows “Justine” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Justine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #21,836 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Justine”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Justine, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #21,836 among 796 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Justine, with forms such as "jjustine", "jsutine", and "jusitne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "jutting", "Justin", "justice", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From French Justine, from Latin Iūstīna, name of early saints, feminine of Iūstīnus, derivative of Iūstus, from iūstus (“just”). The feminine equivalent of Justin. The correct English form is Justine, spelled J-U-S-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Latin.
- 2A male given name from French and Latin, of chiefly Philippine usage, variant of Justin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Justine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
O you who have wept tears upon hearing of Virtue's miseries; you who have been moved to sympathy for the woe-ridden Justine; the while forgiving the perhaps too heavy brushstrokes we have found ourselves compelled to employ, may you at least extract from this story the same moral which determined Madame de Lorsange!
"What are you going to call your noisy daughter?" he asked as the door closed and they were alone. "Justine." "It's a very good name, but why did you choose it?" "I read it somewhere, and I liked it."
Etymology
From French Justine, from Latin Iūstīna, name of early saints, feminine of Iūstīnus, derivative of Iūstus, from iūstus (“just”). The feminine equivalent of Justin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjustine
- jsutine
- jusitne
- jusstine
- justien
- justinne
- justnie
- justtine
- jutsine
- ujstine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Justine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).