injustovsinjustosConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#6,316
“injusto” frequency rank
#28,412
“injustos” frequency rank
34728
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injusto injustos
Definition Que no es justo o carece de equidad. Forma del plural de injusto.

Where the eye mixes injusto and injustos

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. injusto runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against injustos's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
injusto
8 ch
injustos

Why the eye confuses injusto with injustos

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: injusto is [ĩŋˈxust̪o] while injustos is [ĩŋˈxust̪os]. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “injusto” sits inside “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 34728, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injusto is recorded at frequency rank #6,316, classified as anadj, pronounced [ĩŋˈxust̪o]. 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 34728, this pair ranks #189,871 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of injusto vs injustos

Shared letters: ijnostu. Private to "injusto": -. Private to "injustos": -.

"injusto" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "injustos" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • injusto ← ijnusto · injjusto · injsuto · injusot · injussto · injustto · injutso · innjusto
  • injustos ← ijnustos · injjustos · injsutos · injusots · injusstos · injustoss · injustso · injusttos

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "injusto" and "injustos" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "injusto" is an adjective and "injustos" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary Spanish text, does "injusto" or "injustos" show up more?
"injusto" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,316 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.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "injusto" and "injustos" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "injusto" 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 #189,871 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injusto" 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 #189,871 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