justiça

//ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ// noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#581

in Portuguese word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

justiça is aPortuguesenoun. It means: justeza ou retidão no tratamento de outras pessoas Pronounced /ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ/. It ranks #581 in Portuguese word frequency. Often confused with justa.

Key facts for justiça
PropertyValue
Headwordjustiça
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
IPA/ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ/
Letters7
Frequency rank#581
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of justiça in Portuguese word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for justiça is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #581 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for justiça, with forms such as "jjustiça", "jsutiça", and "jusitça". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "justa", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is justiça, spelled J-U-S-T-I-Ç-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    justeza ou retidão no tratamento de outras pessoas
  2. 2
    a lei e sua administração
  3. 3
    justeza, validade de uma demanda
  4. 4
    o princípio moral que determina a conduta justa
  5. 5
    conformidade a esse princípio, que se expressa, por exemplo, em sua conduta
  6. 6
    julgamento de pessoas ou causas em processos judiciais
  7. 7
    a virtude de dar (ou restituir) a cada um o que é seu (ou que lhe é devido)

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: jjustiça,jsutiça,jusitça,jusstiça,justiaç,justtiça,justçia,jutsiça,ujstiça

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for justiça

Misspelling Variants of "justiça"

jjustiça8jsutiça7jusitça7jusstiça8justiaç7justtiça8justçia7jutsiça7
Misspelling Variants of "justiça"

Frequency rank: #581 in Portuguese

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "justiça"?
"justiça" is spelled J-U-S-T-I-Ç-A. The IPA pronunciation is /ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ/.
What does "justiça" mean?
As a noun, "justiça" means: justeza ou retidão no tratamento de outras pessoas
What words are commonly confused with "justiça"?
"justiça" is commonly confused with "justa". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "justiça"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "justiça" is /ʒuʃ.ˈti.sɐ/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "justiça" come from?
"justiça" is a Portuguese word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.