injustice
\ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\
The verdict
“injustice” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #7,581 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #7,581
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Manque de justice ou d’équité.
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 | injustice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “injustice” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for injustice is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,581 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for injustice, with forms such as "ijnustice", "injjustice", and "injsutice". 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. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "injustices", "injustifié", "injuste", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 French form is injustice, spelled I-N-J-U-S-T-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Manque de justice ou d’équité.
- 2Situation contraire à la justice, à l'équité.
- 3Acte contraire à la justice, à l'équité.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ijnustice,injjustice,injsutice,injusitce,injusstice,injustcie,injusticce,injustiec,injusttice,injutsice,innjustice,inujstice,nijustice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of injustice - 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.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “injustice”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-N-J-U-S-T-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “injustices” - see the side-by-side comparison. injustice vs injustices
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.