ajoutéesvsajouterTell them apart

Quick tell: ajoutées is a adjective, ajouter is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“ajoutées” is an adjective and “ajouter” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#18,385
“ajoutées” frequency rank
#1,648
“ajouter” frequency rank
20033
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ajoutées ajouter
Definition Féminin pluriel de ajouté. Mettre en plus.

Same sound, different letters: ajoutées vs ajouter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.

8 ch
ajoutées
7 ch
ajouter

Ear matches; page differs - ajoutées and ajouter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: ajoutées and ajouter carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.ʒu.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20033, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ajoutées is recorded at frequency rank #18,385, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒu.te\. ajouter is at rank #1,648, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ʒu.te\.

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 20033, this pair ranks #370,270 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of ajoutées vs ajouter

Shared letters: aejotu. Private to "ajoutées": . Private to "ajouter": r.

"ajoutées" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVVC  ·  "ajouter" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ajouterajjouter · ajotuer · ajouetr · ajouterr · ajoutre · ajoutter · ajuoter · aojuter

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ajoutées" and "ajouter" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ajoutées" is an adjective and "ajouter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "ajoutées" vs "ajouter" - which ranks higher?
"ajouter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,648 in our French list, against #18,385 for "ajoutées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ajoutées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ajouter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #370,270 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ajoutées" and "ajouter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ajoutées vs ajustées". 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 #370,270 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