ajoutervsajouteraWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“ajouter” and “ajoutera” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#1,648
“ajouter” frequency rank
#28,045
“ajoutera” frequency rank
29693
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ajouter ajoutera
Definition Mettre en plus. Troisième personne du singulier du futur du verbe ajouter.

Where the eye mixes ajouter and ajoutera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

7 ch
ajouter
8 ch
ajoutera

Look-alike desk: ajouter vs ajoutera

A purely visual mix-up. ajouter (\a.ʒu.te\) and ajoutera (\a.ʒu.tə.ʁa\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “ajouter” sits inside “ajoutera”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29693, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

ajouter is recorded at frequency rank #1,648, classified as averb, 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 29693, this pair ranks #315,070 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of ajouter vs ajoutera

Shared letters: aejortu. Private to "ajouter": -. Private to "ajoutera": -.

"ajouter" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCVC  ·  "ajoutera" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ajouterajjouter · ajotuer · ajouetr · ajouterr · ajoutre · ajoutter · ajuoter · aojuter
  • ajouteraajjoutera · ajotuera · ajouetra · ajoutear · ajouterra · ajoutrea · ajouttera · ajuotera

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "ajouter" and "ajoutera" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\a.ʒu.te\ versus \a.ʒu.tə.ʁa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "ajouter" vs "ajoutera" - which ranks higher?
"ajouter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,648 in our French list, against #28,045 for "ajoutera". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ajouter" 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 #315,070 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ajouter" 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 #315,070 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