injusticevsinjusticesTell them apart

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“injustice” and “injustices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#7,581
“injustice” frequency rank
#18,508
“injustices” frequency rank
26089
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injustice injustices
Definition Manque de justice ou d’équité. Pluriel de injustice.

Same sound, different letters: injustice vs injustices

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. injustice runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVCV) against injustices's 10 (VCCVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
injustice
10 ch
injustices

Ear matches; page differs - injustice and injustices

This is the hard kind. injustice and injustices are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\) and both work as anoun. 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) - “injustice” sits inside “injustices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26089, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injustice is recorded at frequency rank #7,581, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\. 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 26089, this pair ranks #337,168 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of injustice vs injustices

Shared letters: ceijnstu. Private to "injustice": -. Private to "injustices": -.

"injustice" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV  ·  "injustices" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • injustice ← ijnustice · injjustice · injsutice · injusitce · injusstice · injustcie · injusticce · injustiec
  • injustices ← ijnustices · injjustices · injsutices · injusitces · injusstices · injustcies · injusticces · injusticess

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "injustice" and "injustices" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.ʒys.tis\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "injustice" vs "injustices" - which ranks higher?
"injustice" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,581 in our French list, against #18,508 for "injustices". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "injustice" 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 #337,168 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injustice" and "injustices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "injustice vs injustifié". 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 #337,168 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