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

#32,858
“injustifiée” frequency rank
#49,723
“injustifiées” frequency rank
82581
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature injustifiée injustifiées
Definition Féminin singulier de injustifié. Féminin pluriel de injustifié.

Same sound, different letters: injustifiée vs injustifiées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. injustifiée runs 11 letters (VCCVCCVCVVV) against injustifiées's 12 (VCCVCCVCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
injustifiée
12 ch
injustifiées

Ear matches; page differs - injustifiée and injustifiées

This is the hard kind. injustifiée 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 1 extra letter(s) - “injustifiée” sits inside “injustifiées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 82581, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

injustifiée is recorded at frequency rank #32,858, 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 82581, this pair ranks #16,451 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of injustifiée vs injustifiées

Shared letters: efijnstué. Private to "injustifiée": -. Private to "injustifiées": -.

"injustifiée" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVV  ·  "injustifiées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCVVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "injustifiée" and "injustifiées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
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: "injustifiée" vs "injustifiées" - which ranks higher?
"injustifiée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,858 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.

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 "injustifiée" 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 #16,451 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "injustifiée" and "injustifiées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "injustifié vs injustifiées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #16,451 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