rajoutévsrajouterTell them apart

Which to use

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

#16,714
“rajouté” frequency rank
#7,360
“rajouter” frequency rank
24074
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rajouté rajouter
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de rajouter. Ajouter de nouveau.

Same sound, different letters: rajouté vs rajouter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. rajouté runs 7 letters (CVCVVCV) against rajouter's 8 (CVCVVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
rajouté
8 ch
rajouter

Ear matches; page differs - rajouté and rajouter

This is the hard kind. rajouté and rajouter are pronounced identically (\ʁa.ʒu.te\) and both work as averb. 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24074, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rajouté is recorded at frequency rank #16,714, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.ʒu.te\. rajouter is at rank #7,360, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.ʒu.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 24074, this pair ranks #348,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of rajouté vs rajouter

Shared letters: ajortu. Private to "rajouté": é. Private to "rajouter": e.

"rajouté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVVCV  ·  "rajouter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVVCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rajouter ← arjouter · rajjouter · rajotuer · rajouetr · rajouterr · rajoutre · rajoutter · rajuoter

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rajouté" and "rajouter" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁa.ʒu.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 "rajouté" or "rajouter" show up more?
"rajouter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,360 in our French list, against #16,714 for "rajouté". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"rajouté" and "rajouter" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rajouté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rajouter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #348,795 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rajouté" and "rajouter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rajouté vs rejoué". 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 #348,795 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