adjacentvsadjacentesWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“adjacent” and “adjacentes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#37,150
“adjacent” frequency rank
#33,537
“adjacentes” frequency rank
70687
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature adjacent adjacentes
Definition Qui est situé auprès. Féminin pluriel de adjacent.

Where the eye mixes adjacent and adjacentes

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence.

8 ch
adjacent
10 ch
adjacentes

Visual trap between adjacent and adjacentes

A purely visual mix-up. adjacent (\ad.ʒa.sɑ̃\) and adjacentes (\ad.ʒa.sɑ̃t\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “adjacent” sits inside “adjacentes”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70687, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

adjacent is recorded at frequency rank #37,150, classified as anadj, pronounced \ad.ʒa.sɑ̃\. adjacentes is at rank #33,537, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ad.ʒa.sɑ̃t\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 70687, this pair ranks #50,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of adjacent vs adjacentes

Shared letters: acdejnt. Private to "adjacent": -. Private to "adjacentes": s.

"adjacent" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVCC  ·  "adjacentes" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • adjacentadajcent · addjacent · adjaccent · adjacennt · adjacentt · adjacetn · adjacnet · adjaecnt
  • adjacentesadajcentes · addjacentes · adjaccentes · adjacenets · adjacenntes · adjacentess · adjacentse · adjacenttes

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "adjacent" for "adjacentes" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ad.ʒa.sɑ̃\ versus \ad.ʒa.sɑ̃t\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "adjacent" or "adjacentes"?
"adjacentes" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,537 in our French list, against #37,150 for "adjacent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "adjacent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "adjacentes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #50,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "adjacent" and "adjacentes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adjacent vs adjacents". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #50,419 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list