justesse

/\ʒys.tɛs\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#9,185

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

justesse is aFrenchnoun. It means: Qualité de ce qui est juste, exact, convenable, tel qu’il doit être. Pronounced \ʒys.tɛs\. It ranks #9,185 in French word frequency. Often confused with juteuse and justes.

Key facts for justesse
PropertyValue
Headwordjustesse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒys.tɛs\
Letters8
Frequency rank#9,185
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of justesse in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for justesse is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒys.tɛs\. Corpus data places it at rank #9,185 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for justesse, with forms such as "jjustesse", "jsutesse", and "jusetsse". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "juteuse", "justes", 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 justesse, spelled J-U-S-T-E-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qualité de ce qui est juste, exact, convenable, tel qu’il doit être.
  2. 2
    Manière de faire une chose avec exactitude, avec précision, sans faute ni écart.
  3. 3
    Qualité qui fait apprécier les choses d’une manière exacte.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjustesse,jsutesse,jusetsse,jusstesse,justese,justeses,justsese,justtesse,jutsesse,ujstesse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for justesse

Misspelling Variants of "justesse"

jjustesse9jsutesse8jusetsse8jusstesse9justese7justeses8justsese8justtesse9
Misspelling Variants of "justesse"

Frequency rank: #9,185 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justesse"?
"justesse" is spelled J-U-S-T-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒys.tɛs\.
What does "justesse" mean?
As a noun, "justesse" means: Qualité de ce qui est juste, exact, convenable, tel qu’il doit être.
What words are commonly confused with "justesse"?
"justesse" is commonly confused with "juteuse", "justes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "justesse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "justesse" is \ʒys.tɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "justesse" come from?
"justesse" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.