Which to use
“justice” and “justices” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #628
- “justice” frequency rank
- #46,253
- “justices” frequency rank
- 46881
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | justice | justices |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Sentiment de donner à chacun ce qu’il mérite, de manière juste en respectant tous les droits d’autrui. | Pluriel de justice. |
Same sound, different letters: justice vs justices
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. justice runs 7 letters (CVCCVCV) against justices's 8 (CVCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - justice and justices
This is the hard kind. justice and justices are pronounced identically (\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) - “justice” sits inside “justices”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46881, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
justice is recorded at frequency rank #628, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʒys.tis\. justices is at rank #46,253, tagged as anoun, pronounced \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 46881, this pair ranks #191,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of justice vs justices
Shared letters: ceijstu. Private to "justice": -. Private to "justices": -.
"justice" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCV · "justices" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "justice" and "justices" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "justice" or "justices" show up more?
Useful next steps
"justice" and "justices" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "justice" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "justices" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #191,313 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "justice" and "justices" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "justices vs justifiés". 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 #191,313 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.