Which to use
“adjoint” and “adjoints” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,311
- “adjoint” frequency rank
- #13,306
- “adjoints” frequency rank
- 16617
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adjoint | adjoints |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui est adjoint. | Masculin pluriel de adjoint. |
Same sound, different letters: adjoint vs adjoints
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - adjoint / adjoints
This is the hard kind. adjoint and adjoints are pronounced identically (\ad.ʒwɛ̃\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “adjoint” sits inside “adjoints”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16617, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adjoint is recorded at frequency rank #3,311, classified as anadj, pronounced \ad.ʒwɛ̃\. adjoints is at rank #13,306, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ad.ʒwɛ̃\.
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 16617, this pair ranks #387,006 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adjoint vs adjoints
Shared letters: adijnot. Private to "adjoint": -. Private to "adjoints": s.
"adjoint" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVCC · "adjoints" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adjoint" for "adjoints" ever safe?
Frequency check: "adjoint" vs "adjoints" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "adjoint" / "adjoints". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "adjoint" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adjoints" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #387,006 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adjoint" and "adjoints" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adjoint vs adroit". 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 #387,006 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.