addendum
\a.dɛ̃.dɔm\
The verdict
“addendum” is uncommon French (frequency #73,678 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,678
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ajout à un document, note additionnelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-addendum · addendum · French
addendum · rank #73,678 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,678
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH achalandé
Nearest frequency peer: achalandé (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « addendum »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accrut
accrut
26,325 corpus weight
- achalandé
achalandé
26,324 corpus weight
- addendum
addendum
26,323 corpus weight
- adl
adl
26,322 corpus weight
- admiratrices
admiratrices
26,321 corpus weight
- advint
advint
26,320 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « addendum » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | addendum |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dɛ̃.dɔm\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « addendum » en français
Rare enough to double-check
addendum is uncommon French at frequency #73,678 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.dɛ̃.dɔm\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ajout à un document, note additionnelle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for addendum, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is addendum, spelled A-D-D-E-N-D-U-M.
Definition
- 1Ajout à un document, note additionnelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how addendum appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En ce qui concerne les paragraphes 279 et 280, ces addenda sont de telle nature qu’ils paraissent limiter le rôle du prince à « mettre le point sur l’i » et à « donner sa signature ».
This word in other languages
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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