justesse
\ʒys.tɛs\
The verdict
“justesse” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,185. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,185
- frequency rank, French
- 957
- “J” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est juste, exact, convenable, tel qu’il doit être.
Corpus desk
Index FR-justesse · justesse · French
justesse · rank #9,185 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,185
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 957
- PHOTO-FINISH joyeuse
Nearest frequency peer: joyeuse (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « justesse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- jambon
jambon
90,819 corpus weight
- jouet
jouet
90,818 corpus weight
- joyeuse
joyeuse
90,817 corpus weight
- justesse
justesse
90,816 corpus weight
- kilomètre
kilomètre
90,815 corpus weight
- laissera
laissera
90,814 corpus weight
What this shows « justesse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | justesse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒys.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,185 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « justesse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around justesse (IPA \ʒys.tɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,185 among 957 “J” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for justesse, with forms such as "jjustesse", "jsutesse", and "jusetsse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "juteuse", "justes", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is justesse, spelled J-U-S-T-E-S-S-E.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est juste, exact, convenable, tel qu’il doit être.
- 2Manière de faire une chose avec exactitude, avec précision, sans faute ni écart.
- 3Qualité qui fait apprécier les choses d’une manière exacte.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how justesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Existe-t-il un type de preuves incontournables qu’il suffirait d’évoquer pour persuader de la justesse de sa position ses opposants les plus tenaces ?
Cette balance est d’une extrême justesse.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- jjustesse
- jsutesse
- jusetsse
- jusstesse
- justese
- justeses
- justsese
- justtesse
- jutsesse
- ujstesse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of justesse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "justesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).