justifier

/\ʒys.ti.fje\/ verb

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.

Key facts for justifier
PropertyValue
Headwordjustifier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʒys.ti.fje\
Letters9
Frequency rank#3,465
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Montrer la vérité de ce qu’on avance, de ce qu’on allègue.
  2. 2
    Rendre juste par l’action de la grâce.
  3. 3
    Montrer, prouver, déclarer que quelqu’un est innocent, qu’il ne mérite pas de châtiment, de blâme.
  4. 4
    Faire qu’une chose soit juste, légitime.
  5. 5
    Prouver, faire voir qu’une chose n’était pas fausse, erronée, mal fondée.
  6. 6
    Expliquer les raisons de ses actes.
  7. 7
    Donner à une ligne la longueur qu’elle doit avoir, à une page le nombre de lignes qu’elle doit avoir.

Synonyms

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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"

jjustifier10jsutifier9jusitfier9jusstifier10justfiier9justifeir9justiffier10justifierr10
Misspelling Variants of "justifier"

Frequency rank: #3,465 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justifier"?
"justifier" is spelled J-U-S-T-I-F-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ʒys.ti.fje\.
What does "justifier" mean?
As a verb, "justifier" means: Montrer la vérité de ce qu’on avance, de ce qu’on allègue.
What words are commonly confused with "justifier"?
"justifier" is commonly confused with "Justinien", "justifiés", "justifiez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "justifier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "justifier" is \ʒys.ti.fje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "justifier" come from?
"justifier" 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.