justificar
/ʒuʃ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/
The verdict
“justificar” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #7,040 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a verb.
- #7,040
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - provar em juízo
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | justificar |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ʒuʃ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,040 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “justificar” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for justificar is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʒuʃ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,040 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for justificar, with forms such as "jjustificar", "jsutificar", and "jusitficar". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is justificar, spelled J-U-S-T-I-F-I-C-A-R.
Definition
- 1provar em juízo
- 2declarar justo
- 3desculpar
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: jjustificar,jsutificar,jusitficar,jusstificar,justfiicar,justifciar,justifficar,justifiacr,justificarr,justificcar,justificra,justiifcar,justtificar,jutsificar,ujstificar
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of justificar - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “justificar”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is J-U-S-T-I-F-I-C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ʒuʃ.ti.fi.ˈkaɾ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.