adjuvant
\ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\
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
- ADC
ADC
46,268 corpus weight
- adjuger
adjuger
46,266 corpus weight
- adjugée
adjugée
46,265 corpus weight
- adjuvant
adjuvant
46,264 corpus weight
- admettez
admettez
46,263 corpus weight
- admit
admit
46,262 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adjuvant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adjuvant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ad.ʒy.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adjuvant » en français
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
- 1Qui aide.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adjuvant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Circonstances adjuvantes.
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).