justice
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | justice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒys.tis\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #628 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Sentiment de donner à chacun ce qu’il mérite, de manière juste en respectant tous les droits d’autrui.
- 2Institution ou pouvoir qui permet de faire respecter les droits de chacun, en punissant tout particulièrement ceux qui ont mal agi.
- 3Bon droit.
- 4Action 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.
- 5Les tribunaux, les officiers et magistrats qui sont chargés d’administrer la justice.
- 6Juridiction.
- 7Rectitude que Dieu met dans l’âme par sa grâce.
- 8Observation exacte des devoirs de la religion.
- 9Lieu où étaient dressées les fourches de justice, c’est-à-dire le gibet.
- 10Huitième 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"
Frequency rank: #628 in French
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