ajustéevsajustéesConfusable pair

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.

7 ch
ajustée
8 ch
ajustées

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.ʒys.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "ajustée" vs "ajustées" - which ranks higher?
"ajustée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,161 in our French list, against #48,315 for "ajustées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list