Which to use
“adjoindre” is a verb and “adjointe” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #37,633
- “adjoindre” frequency rank
- #14,592
- “adjointe” frequency rank
- 52225
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adjoindre | adjointe |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Joindre une ou plusieurs personnes à une ou plusieurs autres pour exécuter une chose. | Celle qui est adjointe à une personne pour certaines fonctions. |
Where the eye mixes adjoindre and adjointe
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: adjoindre vs adjointe
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: adjoindre is \ad.ʒwɛ̃dʁ\ while adjointe is \ad.ʒwɛ̃t\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52225, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adjoindre is recorded at frequency rank #37,633, classified as averb, pronounced \ad.ʒwɛ̃dʁ\. adjointe is at rank #14,592, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ad.ʒwɛ̃t\.
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 52225, this pair ranks #149,207 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of adjoindre vs adjointe
Shared letters: adeijno. Private to "adjoindre": r. Private to "adjointe": t.
"adjoindre" · 9 letters · shape VCCVVCCCV · "adjointe" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adjoindre" and "adjointe" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "adjoindre" or "adjointe" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "adjoindre" and "adjointe" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "adjoindre" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adjointe" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #149,207 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adjoindre" and "adjointe" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adjointe vs adjoints". 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 #149,207 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.