added vs adieu, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“added” is a verb and “adieu” is an intj - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#46,448
“added” frequency rank: #25,875
“adieu” frequency rank: 72323
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	added	adieu
Definition	Präteritum (simple past) des Verbs add	Abschiedsgruß

Letter map: added vs adieu

Shared letters muted; letters that set added and adieu apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch

added

5 ch

adieu

Role in the sentence - added and adieu

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: added is averb and adieuanintj. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 72323, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

added is recorded at frequency rank #46,448, classified as averb, pronounced […]. adieu is at rank #25,875, tagged as anintj, pronounced [aˈdjøː].

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 72323, this pair ranks #391,557 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of added vs adieu

Shared letters: ade. Private to "added": -. Private to "adieu": iu.

"added" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "adieu" · 5 letters · shape VCVVV

Known mistypes of this pair

added ← addde · addedd · aded · adedd · daded
adieu ← addieu · adeiu · adiue · aideu · daieu

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "added" and "adieu" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "added" is a verb and "adieu" an intj, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary German text, does "added" or "adieu" show up more?

"adieu" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #25,875 in our German list, against #46,448 for "added". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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Full dictionary entry for "added" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "adieu" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #391,557 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"added" and "adieu" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "added vs puzzles". 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 #391,557 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.