adoptante
[að̞opˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]
The verdict
“adoptante” is an uncommon Spanish word, ranked #80,651 in Spanish word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #80,651
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Que adopta (acoge; asume; adquiere) o realiza una adopción (acoge y declara a alguien como pariente legal).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adoptante |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [að̞opˈt̪ãn̪t̪e] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “adoptante” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for adoptante is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [að̞opˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #80,651 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Que adopta (acoge; asume; adquiere) o realiza una adopción (acoge y declara a alguien como pariente legal).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for adoptante, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is adoptante, spelled A-D-O-P-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Que adopta (acoge; asume; adquiere) o realiza una adopción (acoge y declara a alguien como pariente legal).
Synonyms
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “adoptante”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is A-D-O-P-T-A-N-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [að̞opˈt̪ãn̪t̪e] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
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.