injustevsinjustesConfusable pair

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.

7 ch
injuste
8 ch
injustes

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

  • injuste ← ijnuste · injjuste · injsute · injuset · injusste · injustte · injutse · innjuste
  • injustes ← ijnustes · injjustes · injsutes · injusets · injusstes · injustess · injustse · injusttes

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "injuste" for "injustes" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.ʒyst\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "injuste" vs "injustes" - which ranks higher?
"injuste" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,876 in our French list, against #23,247 for "injustes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list