adjacent
\ad.ʒa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“adjacent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,150. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,150
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est situé auprès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adjacent · adjacent · French
adjacent · rank #37,150 · 12 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,150
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH administrativ…
Nearest frequency peer: administrativement (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « adjacent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accomplies
accomplies
62,854 corpus weight
- acheva
acheva
62,853 corpus weight
- adjacent
adjacent
62,851 corpus weight
- administrat…
administrativement
62,850 corpus weight
- adult
adult
62,849 corpus weight
- advienne
advienne
62,848 corpus weight
What this shows « adjacent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | adjacent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.ʒa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #37,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adjacent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around adjacent (IPA \ad.ʒa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #37,150 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for adjacent, with forms such as "adajcent", "addjacent", and "adjaccent". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "adjacente", "adjacents", "adjacentes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is adjacent, spelled A-D-J-A-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est situé auprès.
- 2Qui débouche sur (une autre rue en parlant d’une rue).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adjacent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Le mot juste est inceste, dit Lo — et elle entra dans la penderie, en ressortit aussitôt en poussant un petit rire juvénile et doré, ouvrit la porte adjacente, et après avoir prudemment regardé à l’intérieur, de ses étranges yeux gris fumé, de peur de commettre une autre bévue, elle se retira dans la salle de bain.
Si dans un triangle rectangle on abaisse une perpendiculaire du sommet de l'angle droit sur l’hypoténuse, le rapport d'un segment d’hypoténuse à la longueur de l’hypoténuse est égal au carré du cosinus de l'angle adjacent au segment.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adajcent
- addjacent
- adjaccent
- adjacennt
- adjacentt
- adjacetn
- adjacnet
- adjaecnt
- adjcaent
- adjjacent
- ajdacent
- dajacent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adjacent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).