Which to use
“injuste” and “injustes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,876
- “injuste” frequency rank
- #23,247
- “injustes” frequency rank
- 29123
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | injuste | injustes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui n’a pas de justice, qui agit contre les règles de la justice. | Pluriel de injuste. |
Same sound, different letters: injuste vs injustes
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. injuste runs 7 letters (VCCVCCV) against injustes's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - injuste / injustes
This is the hard kind. injuste and injustes are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.ʒyst\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “injuste” sits inside “injustes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29123, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
injuste is recorded at frequency rank #5,876, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒyst\. injustes is at rank #23,247, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒyst\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 29123, this pair ranks #318,602 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of injuste vs injustes
Shared letters: eijnstu. Private to "injuste": -. Private to "injustes": -.
"injuste" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "injustes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "injuste" for "injustes" ever safe?
Frequency check: "injuste" vs "injustes" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "injuste" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "injustes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #318,602 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "injuste" and "injustes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "induites vs injustes". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #318,602 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.