injustesvsinjusticesWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: injustes is a adjective, injustices is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“injustes” is an adjective and “injustices” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#23,247
“injustes” frequency rank
#18,508
“injustices” frequency rank
41755
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injustes injustices
Definition Pluriel de injuste. Pluriel de injustice.

Where the eye mixes injustes and injustices

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. injustes runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVC) against injustices's 10 (VCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
injustes
10 ch
injustices

Visual trap between injustes and injustices

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: injustes is \ɛ̃.ʒyst\ while injustices is \ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41755, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injustes is recorded at frequency rank #23,247, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒyst\. injustices is at rank #18,508, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\.

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 41755, this pair ranks #230,729 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of injustes vs injustices

Shared letters: eijnstu. Private to "injustes": -. Private to "injustices": c.

"injustes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "injustices" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • injustes ← ijnustes · injjustes · injsutes · injusets · injusstes · injustess · injustse · injusttes
  • injustices ← ijnustices · injjustices · injsutices · injusitces · injusstices · injustcies · injusticces · injusticess

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "injustes" and "injustices" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "injustes" is an adjective and "injustices" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "injustes" or "injustices"?
"injustices" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,508 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.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "injustes" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "injustices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #230,729 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injustes" and "injustices" 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 #230,729 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