maladaptation
noun
maladaptation is spelled M-A-L-A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is maladaption: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Maladaptation is a noun meaning “The state of being poorly adapted to an environment”. The plural of maladaptation is maladaptations.
How many letters and syllables are in maladaptation?
| Letters | 13: M-A-L-A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, maladaption, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell maladaptation?
Maladaptation is spelled M-A-L-A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for maladaptation in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is maladaptation?
Maladaptation appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Forms of maladaptation
- maladaptations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does maladaptation mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The state of being poorly adapted to an environment.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does maladaptation come from?
From mal- + adaptation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).