ajouter

\a.ʒu.te\

/\a.ʒu.te\/ verb

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The verdict

“ajouter” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,648
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mettre en plus.

Corpus desk

Index FR-ajouter · ajouter · French

ajouter · rank #1,648 · 9 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,648
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH étape

Nearest frequency peer: étape (-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 « ajouter »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « ajouter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

ajouter vs avouer
71% similar
ajouter vs ajouts
71% similar
ajouter vs ajoutez
86% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for ajouter
PropertyValue
Headwordajouter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ʒu.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#1,648
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ajouter »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).ajouterse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « étape » (#1,647), « avantage » (#1,649), « écouter » (#1,646). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « ajouter » est au #1,648. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around ajouter (IPA \a.ʒu.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,648 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ajouter, with forms such as "ajjouter", "ajotuer", and "ajouetr". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "avouer", "ajouts", "ajoutez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ajouter, spelled A-J-O-U-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre en plus.
  2. 2
    Dire en plus.
  3. 3
    Augmenter.
  4. 4
    Amplifier par des circonstances inventées.
  5. 5
    S’additionner.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Elle ressemblait aux femmes des livres romantiques. Il n’aurait voulu rien ajouter, rien retrancher à sa personne.
  2. Le père Thomas est prêt, une mèche neuve a été lestement ajoutée à son fouet de malle ; il part faisant à son tour résonner l'air de ses clics-clacs les plus harmonieux.

This word in other languages

add(English)añadir(Español)hinzufügen(Deutsch)acrescentar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ajjouter
  • ajotuer
  • ajouetr
  • ajouterr
  • ajoutre
  • ajoutter
  • ajuoter
  • aojuter
  • jaouter

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ajouter - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ajjouter1ajotuer2ajouetr2ajouterr1ajoutre2ajoutter1ajuoter2aojuter2
Edit distance from "ajouter"

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 "ajouter"?
"ajouter" is spelled A-J-O-U-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʒu.te\.
What does "ajouter" mean?
As a verb, "ajouter" means: Mettre en plus.
What words are commonly confused with "ajouter"?
"ajouter" is commonly confused with "avouer", "ajouts", "ajoutez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ajouter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ajouter" is \a.ʒu.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ajouter" come from?
"ajouter" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

écouter#1,646capital#1,652logique#1,666ouverte#1,669

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

bataille9 variantscertes9 variantscheval9 variantstextes9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list