adjust
/əˈd͡ʒʌst/verb
adjust is spelled A-D-J-U-S-T. The wrong spelling people search most is ajust: about 110 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Adjust is a verb meaning “To modify”.
How many letters and syllables are in adjust?
| Letters | 6: A-D-J-U-S-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ajust, about 110 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell adjust?
Adjust is spelled A-D-J-U-S-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for adjust in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is adjust?
Adjust appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce adjust?
- US /əˈd͡ʒʌst/
- Australia /əˈd͡ʒɐst/
- /əˈd͡ʒɛst/
Adjust has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-adjust.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with adjust?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as adjust from its last stressed vowel (/ʌst/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of adjust
- adjusts present, singular, he/she/it
- adjusting participle, present
- adjusted participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adjust mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To modify.
Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
- 2
To improve or rectify.
He adjusted his initial conclusion to reflect the new data.
- 3
To settle an insurance claim.
- 4
To change to fit circumstances.
Most immigrants adjust quickly to a new community.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adjust in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ajuster |
| German | anpassen, abstimmen, ausrichten, justieren, geringfügig ändern, leicht abändern |
| Portuguese | ajustar , enquadrar |
| Spanish | ajustar, compaginar, cohonestar , aforar, hacer ajustes |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adjust come from?
From Middle English ajusten, borrowed from Middle French adjuster, or Old French, from Latin ad (“to, up to, towards”) + iustus (“correct, proper, exact”); Equivalent to ad- + just. Probably influenced in sense by Old French ajouster (cf. modern ajouter), from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, from Latin iuxta. The Middle English originally meant "to correct, remedy" in the late 14th century, and was reborrowed from Middle French in the early 17th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).