adjust

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The English entry for adjust is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈd͡ʒʌst/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,320 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 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 adjust, with forms such as "addjust", "adjjust", and "adjsut". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "Aust", "adult", "august", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: 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), f… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is adjust, spelled A-D-J-U-S-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.