juste
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#131
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
juste is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est conforme au droit, à la raison et à la justice. Pronounced \ʒyst\. It ranks #131 in French word frequency. Often confused with jute and Justin.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | juste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ʒyst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #131 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for juste is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒyst\. Corpus data places it at rank #131 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 10 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 juste, with forms such as "jjuste", "jsute", and "juset". 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, "jute", "Justin", "justes", 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 French form is juste, spelled J-U-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est conforme au droit, à la raison et à la justice.
- 2Qui est fondé ; qui est légitime.
- 3Qui est exact, ou qui s’ajuste bien, qui convient bien, qui est tel qu’il doit être.
- 4Qui est plus court, plus étroit, etc., qu’il ne faut, qui n’est pas suffisant.
- 5Qualifie une arme qui porte droit au but.
- 6Qui a le caractère de la justesse et du bon sens.
- 7Qui apprécie bien, qui juge des choses avec exactitude.
- 8Qui a le ton correct.
- 9Qualifie une quarte formée de deux tons et un demi-ton ; une quinte formée de trois tons et un demi-tons ; ou une octave formée de six tons.
- 10Par exclamation.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjuste,jsute,juset,jusste,justte,jutse,ujste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for juste
Misspelling Variants of "juste"
Frequency rank: #131 in French
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Nearby French words
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