justice

/\ʒys.tis\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#628

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

7

similar word pairs

justice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sentiment de donner à chacun ce qu’il mérite, de manière juste en respectant tous les droits d’autrui. Pronounced \ʒys.tis\. It ranks #628 in French word frequency. Often confused with Justin and justine.

Key facts for justice
PropertyValue
Headwordjustice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒys.tis\
Letters7
Frequency rank#628
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for justice is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒys.tis\. Corpus data places it at rank #628 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 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for justice, with forms such as "jjustice", "jsutice", and "jusitce". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Justin", "justine", "justifie", 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 justice, spelled J-U-S-T-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sentiment de donner à chacun ce qu’il mérite, de manière juste en respectant tous les droits d’autrui.
  2. 2
    Institution ou pouvoir qui permet de faire respecter les droits de chacun, en punissant tout particulièrement ceux qui ont mal agi.
  3. 3
    Bon droit.
  4. 4
    Action de reconnaître le droit de quelqu’un à quelque chose, d’accueillir sa plainte, etc. Action d’accorder à une personne ce qu’elle demande et qu’il est juste qu’elle obtienne.
  5. 5
    Les tribunaux, les officiers et magistrats qui sont chargés d’administrer la justice.
  6. 6
    Juridiction.
  7. 7
    Rectitude que Dieu met dans l’âme par sa grâce.
  8. 8
    Observation exacte des devoirs de la religion.
  9. 9
    Lieu où étaient dressées les fourches de justice, c’est-à-dire le gibet.
  10. 10
    Huitième atout du tarot de Marseille.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjustice,jsutice,jusitce,jusstice,justcie,justicce,justiec,justtice,jutsice,ujstice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for justice

Misspelling Variants of "justice"

jjustice8jsutice7jusitce7jusstice8justcie7justicce8justiec7justtice8
Misspelling Variants of "justice"

Frequency rank: #628 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justice"?
"justice" is spelled J-U-S-T-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒys.tis\.
What does "justice" mean?
As a noun, "justice" means: Sentiment de donner à chacun ce qu’il mérite, de manière juste en respectant tous les droits d’autrui.
What words are commonly confused with "justice"?
"justice" is commonly confused with "Justin", "justine", "justifie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "justice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "justice" is \ʒys.tis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "justice" come from?
"justice" 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.