adjust
/əˈd͡ʒʌst/
"adjust" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adjust” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,320
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To modify.
Corpus desk
Index EN-adjust · adjust · English
adjust · rank #6,320 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,320
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH administrator
Nearest frequency peer: administrator (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “adjust”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- widow
widow
93,684 corpus weight
- wives
wives
93,683 corpus weight
- adjust
adjust
93,681 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrator
93,680 corpus weight
- affecting
affecting
93,679 corpus weight
- allied
allied
93,678 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “adjust” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adjust |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈd͡ʒʌst/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #6,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adjust” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around adjust (IPA /əˈd͡ʒʌst/), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,320 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for adjust, with forms such as "addjust", "adjjust", and "adjsut". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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… The correct English form is adjust, spelled A-D-J-U-S-T.
Definition
- 1To modify.
- 2To improve or rectify.
- 3To settle an insurance claim.
- 4To change to fit circumstances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adjust appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Morimoto's recipes are adjusted to suit the American palate.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Etymology
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. According to another view on the etymology, the word was actually derived from Old French ajouster and then supposedly later influenced by folk etymology from Latin iustus; if so, it is a doublet of adjute.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addjust
- adjjust
- adjsut
- adjusst
- adjustt
- adjuts
- adujst
- ajdust
- dajust
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adjust - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
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- "adjust" maps to 7 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Aust". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #6,320 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.