add
\æd\
The verdict
“add” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #23,436) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #23,436
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Additionner, ajouter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-add · add · French
add · rank #23,436 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,436
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acrobatique
Nearest frequency peer: acrobatique (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « add »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- accueillait
accueillait
76,567 corpus weight
- acrobatique
acrobatique
76,566 corpus weight
- add
add
76,565 corpus weight
- adjectifs
adjectifs
76,564 corpus weight
- admiré
admiré
76,563 corpus weight
- affaiblie
affaiblie
76,562 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « add » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | add |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \æd\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #23,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « add »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for add is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \æd\. Frequency #23,436 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for add, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is add, spelled A-D-D.
Definition
- 1Additionner, ajouter.
- 2Ajouter, rajouter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how add appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Add 1 to 2 and you get 3.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).