justo
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#723
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
justo is anSpanishadj. It means: Guiado por la razón, la verdad o la justicia. Pronounced [ˈxust̪o]. It ranks #723 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with juzgo and justos.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | justo |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [ˈxust̪o] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #723 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for justo is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈxust̪o]. Corpus data places it at rank #723 in overall Spanish word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for justo, with forms such as "jjusto", "jsuto", and "jusot". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "juzgo", "justos", "jus", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is justo, spelled J-U-S-T-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Guiado por la razón, la verdad o la justicia.
- 2Que se conforma a los derechos de alguien, a la ley.
- 3Que cumple con estándares, requerimientos o especificaciones. Sin más ni menos de lo requerido para cierto propósito.
- 4Que se ajusta, acopla o ensambla bien con otra cosa en su tamaño y forma.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjusto,jsuto,jusot,jussto,justto,jutso,ujsto
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for justo
Misspelling Variants of "justo"
Frequency rank: #723 in Spanish
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