justicière

\ʒys.ti.sjɛʁ\

/\ʒys.ti.sjɛʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“justicière” is uncommon French (frequency #85,849 among 957 “J” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#85,849
frequency rank, French
957
“J” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui aime à rendre, à faire justice.

Corpus desk

Index FR-justiciere · justicière · French

justicière · rank #85,849 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #85,849
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 957
  • PHOTO-FINISH juridictionne…

Nearest frequency peer: juridictionnelles (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « justicière »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « justicière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for justicière
PropertyValue
Headwordjusticière
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʒys.ti.sjɛʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#85,849
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « justicière » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).justicièretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « juridictionnelles » (#85,848), « jugerons » (#85,847), « judiciarisation » (#85,846). Parmi 957 lemmes en « J », « justicière » est au #85,849. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

justicière is uncommon French at frequency #85,849 among 957 “J” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʒys.ti.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for justicière, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is justicière, spelled J-U-S-T-I-C-I-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui aime à rendre, à faire justice.
  2. 2
    Personne qui avait droit de justice en quelque lieu.
  3. 3
    Celle qui s’octroie le droit de rendre la justice.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how justicière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Fantômette est la seule justicière connue en France et dans la francophonie.
  2. Et la chose qui devait être se fit alors de la façon la plus simple et la plus tendre, permise par la mère elle-même, qui, dans son mépris de justicière pour une société où les bons mouraient de faim, se refusait à reconnaître la nécessité des liens sociaux.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justicière"?
"justicière" is spelled J-U-S-T-I-C-I-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒys.ti.sjɛʁ\.
What does "justicière" mean?
As a noun, "justicière" means: Celle qui aime à rendre, à faire justice.
How do you pronounce "justicière"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "justicière" is \ʒys.ti.sjɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "justicière", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list