adaptable

/\a.dap.tabl\/ adj

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#48,894

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

adaptable is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui peut être adapté. Pronounced \a.dap.tabl\.

Key facts for adaptable
PropertyValue
Headwordadaptable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\a.dap.tabl\
Letters9
Frequency rank#48,894
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of adaptable in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for adaptable is 9 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dap.tabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #48,894 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui peut être adapté.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for adaptable, with forms such as "aadptable", "adapatble", and "adapptable". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is adaptable, spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-B-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être adapté.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aadptable,adapatble,adapptable,adaptabble,adaptabel,adaptablle,adaptalbe,adaptbale,adapttable,adatpable,addaptable,adpatable,daaptable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adaptable

Misspelling Variants of "adaptable"

aadptable9adapatble9adapptable10adaptabble10adaptabel9adaptablle10adaptalbe9adaptbale9
Misspelling Variants of "adaptable"

Frequency rank: #48,894 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adaptable"?
"adaptable" is spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dap.tabl\.
What does "adaptable" mean?
As an adj, "adaptable" means: Qui peut être adapté.
What are common misspellings of "adaptable"?
Common misspellings include "aadptable", "adapatble", "adapptable", "adaptabble", "adaptabel". The correct spelling is "adaptable".
How do you pronounce "adaptable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adaptable" is \a.dap.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adaptable" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.