injustasvsinjustosWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: injustas is a adjective, injustos is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“injustas” is an adjective and “injustos” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,737
“injustas” frequency rank
#28,412
“injustos” frequency rank
51149
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injustas injustos
Definition Forma del femenino plural de injusto. Forma del plural de injusto.

Where the eye mixes injustas and injustos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. injustas and injustos follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
injustas
8 ch
injustos

Look-alike desk: injustas vs injustos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: injustas is [ĩŋˈxust̪as] while injustos is [ĩŋˈxust̪os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “injustas” becomes o in “injustos”, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51149, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injustas is recorded at frequency rank #22,737, classified as anadj, pronounced [ĩŋˈxust̪as]. injustos is at rank #28,412, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ĩŋˈxust̪os].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51149, this pair ranks #99,416 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of injustas vs injustos

Shared letters: ijnstu. Private to "injustas": a. Private to "injustos": o.

"injustas" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "injustos" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • injustas ← ijnustas · injjustas · injsutas · injusats · injusstas · injustass · injustsa · injusttas
  • injustos ← ijnustos · injjustos · injsutos · injusots · injusstos · injustoss · injustso · injusttos

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "injustas" for "injustos" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "injustas" is an adjective and "injustos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "injustas" or "injustos" show up more?
"injustas" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,737 in our Spanish list, against #28,412 for "injustos". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "injustas" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "injustos" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #99,416 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injustas" and "injustos" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "injertos vs injustos". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #99,416 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list