justifiéevsjustifiezTell them apart

Which to use

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

#12,605
“justifiée” frequency rank
#38,880
“justifiez” frequency rank
51485
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature justifiée justifiez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de justifier. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif du verbe justifier.

Same sound, different letters: justifiée vs justifiez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. justifiée (CVCCVCVVV) and justifiez (CVCCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
justifiée
9 ch
justifiez

Homophone desk: justifiée vs justifiez

This is the hard kind. justifiée and justifiez are pronounced identically (\ʒys.ti.fje\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51485, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

justifiée is recorded at frequency rank #12,605, classified as averb, pronounced \ʒys.ti.fje\. justifiez is at rank #38,880, tagged as averb, pronounced \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 51485, this pair ranks #154,632 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of justifiée vs justifiez

Shared letters: efijstu. Private to "justifiée": é. Private to "justifiez": z.

"justifiée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVV  ·  "justifiez" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • justifiez ← jjustifiez · jsutifiez · jusitfiez · jusstifiez · justfiiez · justifeiz · justiffiez · justifiezz

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "justifiée" and "justifiez" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\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.
Which is more common, "justifiée" or "justifiez"?
"justifiée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #12,605 in our French list, against #38,880 for "justifiez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "justifiée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "justifiez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #154,632 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "justifiée" and "justifiez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "justifiés vs justifiez". 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 #154,632 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