injustifié vs injustifiées

Which to use

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

#41,346
“injustifié” frequency rank: #49,723
“injustifiées” frequency rank: 91069
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	injustifié	injustifiées
Definition	Qui n’est pas justifié ; que rien ne peut justifier.	Féminin pluriel de injustifié.

Same sound, different letters: injustifié vs injustifiées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. injustifié runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCVV) against injustifiées's 12 (VCCVCCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch

injustifié

12 ch

injustifiées

Ear matches; page differs - injustifié and injustifiées

This is the hard kind. injustifié and injustifiées are pronounced identically (\ɛ̃.ʒys.ti.fje\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “injustifié” sits inside “injustifiées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 91069, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injustifié is recorded at frequency rank #41,346, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒys.ti.fje\. injustifiées is at rank #49,723, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɛ̃.ʒys.ti.fje\.

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 91069, this pair ranks #4,183 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of injustifié vs injustifiées

Shared letters: fijnstué. Private to "injustifié": -. Private to "injustifiées": e.

"injustifié" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVV · "injustifiées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "injustifié" for "injustifiées" ever safe?

No. They are pronounced the same (\ɛ̃.ʒys.ti.fje\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Frequency check: "injustifié" vs "injustifiées" - which ranks higher?

"injustifié" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,346 in our French list, against #49,723 for "injustifiées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "injustifié" / "injustifiées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

Full dictionary entry for "injustifié" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "injustifiées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #4,183 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"injustifié" and "injustifiées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "injustifiée vs injustifiées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #4,183 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.