adoptee
"adoptee" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“adoptee” is an uncommon English word, ranked #79,231 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #79,231
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An adopted son or daughter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adoptee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,231 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adoptee” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for adoptee is 7 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #79,231 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No generated misspelling entries exist for adoptee in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee. The correct English form is adoptee, spelled A-D-O-P-T-E-E.
Definition
- 1An adopted son or daughter.
- 2A person who was adopted as a child.
- 3Synonym of adopter.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French adoptée, feminine past participle of adopter meaning "to adopt", equivalent to adopt + -ee.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “adoptee”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-D-O-P-T-E-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.