adaptation
ad·ap·ta·tion/ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/noun
adaptation is spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N: 10 letters and 4 syllables (ad·ap·ta·tion). It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “adaptation vs adaption” about 1,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, adaptation means “The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of adaptation is adaptations.
How many letters and syllables are in adaptation?
| Letters | 10: A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: ad·ap·ta·tion |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is adaptation?
Adaptation appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce adaptation?
- UK /ˌæd.əpˈteɪ.ʃən/
- US /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/
Adaptation has 4 syllables, split ad·ap·ta·tion in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-adaptation.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with adaptation
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: adaption.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with adaptation?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as adaptation from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of adaptation
- adaptations plural
- adaption rare
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adaptation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
- 2
A change that is made or undergone to suit a condition or environment.
- 3
The process of replacing a given morpheme of a source lexeme with an equivalent morpheme of the target lexeme, especially where the two morphemes are cognates.
- 4
The process of change that an organism undergoes to be better suited to its environment.
- 5
An instance of an organism undergoing change, or the structure or behavior that is changed.
- 6
The process of adapting an artistic work from a different medium.
- 7
An artistic work that has been adapted from a different medium.
- 8
The means by which social groups adapt to different social and physical environments.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate adaptation?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of adaptation: ISA, ad..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adaptation in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | adaptation |
| German | Anpassung , Kompromiss , Adaptation , Bearbeitung, Adaptierung |
| Spanish | adaptación |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.