Which to use
“ajout” and “atout” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,930
- “ajout” frequency rank
- #8,656
- “atout” frequency rank
- 16586
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ajout | atout |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Chose ajoutée à une autre | Carte de la même couleur que celle qui retourne, ou qui, suivant une convention, l’emporte sur les autres. |
Where the eye mixes ajout and atout
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses ajout with atout
A purely visual mix-up. ajout (\a.ʒu\) and atout (\a.tu\) 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 a single letter - j in “ajout” becomes t in “atout”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16586, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ajout is recorded at frequency rank #7,930, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.ʒu\. atout is at rank #8,656, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.tu\.
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 16586, this pair ranks #387,154 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of ajout vs atout
Shared letters: aotu. Private to "ajout": j. Private to "atout": -.
"ajout" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC · "atout" · 5 letters · shape VCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ajout" and "atout" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "ajout" or "atout" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "ajout" and "atout" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "ajout" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "atout" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #387,154 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ajout" and "atout" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "atos vs atout". 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 #387,154 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.