justifier
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,465
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
justifier is aFrenchverb. It means: Montrer la vérité de ce qu’on avance, de ce qu’on allègue. Pronounced \ʒys.ti.fje\. It ranks #3,465 in French word frequency. Often confused with Justinien and justifiés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | justifier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʒys.ti.fje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for justifier is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒys.ti.fje\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,465 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for justifier, with forms such as "jjustifier", "jsutifier", and "jusitfier". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "Justinien", "justifiés", "justifiez", 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 justifier, spelled J-U-S-T-I-F-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Montrer la vérité de ce qu’on avance, de ce qu’on allègue.
- 2Rendre juste par l’action de la grâce.
- 3Montrer, prouver, déclarer que quelqu’un est innocent, qu’il ne mérite pas de châtiment, de blâme.
- 4Faire qu’une chose soit juste, légitime.
- 5Prouver, faire voir qu’une chose n’était pas fausse, erronée, mal fondée.
- 6Expliquer les raisons de ses actes.
- 7Donner à une ligne la longueur qu’elle doit avoir, à une page le nombre de lignes qu’elle doit avoir.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjustifier,jsutifier,jusitfier,jusstifier,justfiier,justifeir,justiffier,justifierr,justifire,justiifer,justtifier,jutsifier,ujstifier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for justifier
Misspelling Variants of "justifier"
Frequency rank: #3,465 in French
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Nearby French words
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