adjuvant

\ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\

/\ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\/ adj

The verdict

“adjuvant” is uncommon French (frequency #53,737 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#53,737
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aide.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adjuvant · adjuvant · French

adjuvant · rank #53,737 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #53,737
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adjugée

Nearest frequency peer: adjugée (-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 « adjuvant »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adjuvant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for adjuvant
PropertyValue
Headwordadjuvant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#53,737
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « adjuvant » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).adjuvanttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « adjugée » (#53,736), « admettez » (#53,738), « adjuger » (#53,735). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adjuvant » est au #53,737. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adjuvant is uncommon French at frequency #53,737 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui aide.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adjuvant, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is adjuvant, spelled A-D-J-U-V-A-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui aide.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how adjuvant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Circonstances adjuvantes.
  2. En effet ces eaux [sulfureuses] sont tour à tour : […] 8° Préventives des accidents causés par le mercure et réparatrices de l’intoxication et de la cachexie mercurielle ; 9° Auxiliaires ou adjuvantes des médicaments spéciaux de la syphilis.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adjuvant"?
"adjuvant" is spelled A-D-J-U-V-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\.
What does "adjuvant" mean?
As an adjective, "adjuvant" means: Qui aide.
How do you pronounce "adjuvant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adjuvant" is \ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adjuvant" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adjuvant", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list