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

#37,161
“ajustée” frequency rank
#43,254
“ajustés” frequency rank
80415
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature ajustée ajustés
Definition Féminin singulier de ajusté. Masculin pluriel de ajusté.

Same sound, different letters: ajustée vs ajustés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. ajustée (VCVCCVV) and ajustés (VCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
ajustée
7 ch
ajustés

Homophone desk: ajustée vs ajustés

This is the hard kind. ajustée and ajustés 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 a single letter - e in “ajustée” becomes s in “ajustés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 80415, 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\. ajustés is at rank #43,254, 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 80415, this pair ranks #20,984 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of ajustée vs ajustés

Shared letters: ajstué. Private to "ajustée": e. Private to "ajustés": -.

"ajustée" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVV  ·  "ajustés" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "ajustée" and "ajustés" be used interchangeably?
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.
In ordinary French text, does "ajustée" or "ajustés" show up more?
"ajustée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #37,161 in our French list, against #43,254 for "ajustés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "ajustée" / "ajustés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "ajustée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ajustés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #20,984 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "ajustée" and "ajustés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ajustées vs ajustés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #20,984 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