ajoutéesvsajouteraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#18,385
“ajoutées” frequency rank
#28,045
“ajoutera” frequency rank
46430
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ajoutées ajoutera
Definition Féminin pluriel de ajouté. Troisième personne du singulier du futur du verbe ajouter.

Where the eye mixes ajoutées and ajoutera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. ajoutées (VCVVCVVC) and ajoutera (VCVVCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
ajoutées
8 ch
ajoutera

Why the eye confuses ajoutées with ajoutera

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: ajoutées is \a.ʒu.te\ while ajoutera is \a.ʒu.tə.ʁa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46430, 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\. ajoutera is at rank #28,045, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.ʒu.tə.ʁa\.

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 46430, this pair ranks #195,001 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ajoutées vs ajoutera

Shared letters: aejotu. Private to "ajoutées": sé. Private to "ajoutera": r.

"ajoutées" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVVC  ·  "ajoutera" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ajoutera ← ajjoutera · ajotuera · ajouetra · ajoutear · ajouterra · ajoutrea · ajouttera · ajuotera

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "ajoutées" for "ajoutera" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "ajoutées" is an adjective and "ajoutera" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "ajoutées" or "ajoutera" show up more?
"ajoutées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,385 in our French list, against #28,045 for "ajoutera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "ajoutées" and "ajoutera" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ajoutées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ajoutera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #195,001 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ajoutées" and "ajoutera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adoptera vs ajoutera". 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 #195,001 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