adjointe

/\ad.ʒwɛ̃t\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#14,592

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

3

similar word pairs

adjointe is aFrenchnoun. It means: Celle qui est adjointe à une personne pour certaines fonctions. Pronounced \ad.ʒwɛ̃t\. Often confused with adjoints and adjoint.

Key facts for adjointe
PropertyValue
Headwordadjointe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ad.ʒwɛ̃t\
Letters8
Frequency rank#14,592
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adjointe in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for adjointe is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ad.ʒwɛ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #14,592 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Celle qui est adjointe à une personne pour certaines fonctions.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for adjointe, with forms such as "addjointe", "adjionte", and "adjjointe". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "adjoints", "adjoint", "adjoindre", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is adjointe, spelled A-D-J-O-I-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui est adjointe à une personne pour certaines fonctions.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: addjointe,adjionte,adjjointe,adjoinet,adjoinnte,adjointte,adjoitne,adjonite,adojinte,ajdointe,dajointe

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adjointe

Misspelling Variants of "adjointe"

addjointe9adjionte8adjjointe9adjoinet8adjoinnte9adjointte9adjoitne8adjonite8
Misspelling Variants of "adjointe"

Frequency rank: #14,592 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adjointe"?
"adjointe" is spelled A-D-J-O-I-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.ʒwɛ̃t\.
What does "adjointe" mean?
As a noun, "adjointe" means: Celle qui est adjointe à une personne pour certaines fonctions.
What words are commonly confused with "adjointe"?
"adjointe" is commonly confused with "adjoints", "adjoint", "adjoindre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adjointe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adjointe" is \ad.ʒwɛ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adjointe" come from?
"adjointe" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.