Which to use
“ajustée” and “ajustées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #37,161
- “ajustée” frequency rank
- #48,315
- “ajustées” frequency rank
- 85476
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | ajustée | ajustées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de ajusté. | Féminin pluriel de ajusté. |
Same sound, different letters: ajustée vs ajustées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. ajustée runs 7 letters (VCVCCVV) against ajustées's 8 (VCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: ajustée vs ajustées
This is the hard kind. ajustée and ajustées are pronounced identically (\a.ʒys.te\) 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) - “ajustée” sits inside “ajustées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85476, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
ajustée is recorded at frequency rank #37,161, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒys.te\. ajustées is at rank #48,315, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.ʒys.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 85476, this pair ranks #11,316 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of ajustée vs ajustées
Shared letters: aejstué. Private to "ajustée": -. Private to "ajustées": -.
"ajustée" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVV · "ajustées" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "ajustée" and "ajustées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "ajustée" vs "ajustées" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "ajustée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "ajustées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #11,316 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "ajustée" and "ajustées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ajustées vs ajustés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #11,316 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.