justine
\ʒys.tin\
The verdict
“justine” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #12,405 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #12,405
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Monnaie d’argent fabriquée à Venise, et qui tenait onze deniers de fin.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | justine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ʒys.tin\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #12,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “justine” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for justine is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʒys.tin\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,405 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Monnaie d’argent fabriquée à Venise, et qui tenait onze deniers de fin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for justine, with forms such as "jjustine", "jsutine", and "jusitne". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Justinien", "juste", "Justin", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is justine, spelled J-U-S-T-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Monnaie d’argent fabriquée à Venise, et qui tenait onze deniers de fin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjustine,jsutine,jusitne,jusstine,justien,justinne,justnie,justtine,jutsine,ujstine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of justine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Using “justine”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is J-U-S-T-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ʒys.tin\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Justinien” - see the side-by-side comparison. justine vs Justinien
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.