adaptatif
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The verdict
“adaptatif” is uncommon French (frequency #55,716 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui s’adapte facilement, capable d’évoluer, de s’adapter ou de se modifier en conséquence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adaptatif · adaptatif · French
adaptatif · rank #55,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,716
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acoustic
Nearest frequency peer: acoustic (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « adaptatif »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accroupie
accroupie
44,288 corpus weight
- accusateurs
accusateurs
44,287 corpus weight
- acoustic
acoustic
44,286 corpus weight
- adaptatif
adaptatif
44,285 corpus weight
- Adige
Adige
44,284 corpus weight
- admette
admette
44,283 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adaptatif » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adaptatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.dap.ta.tif\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adaptatif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
adaptatif is uncommon French at frequency #55,716 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.dap.ta.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for adaptatif, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is adaptatif, spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui s’adapte facilement, capable d’évoluer, de s’adapter ou de se modifier en conséquence.
- 2Qui produit ou facilite une adaptation. Se dit d’un caractère morphologique, anatomique ou physiologique permettant à un organisme de s’adapter à des conditions de vie déterminées. Se dit de tout ce qui contribue à l’adaptation d’un organisme dans un milieu.
- 3Qualifie un système dont les sorties sont fonctions de l’historique des entrées.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adaptatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un comportement adaptatif aux changements de l’environnement.
Pour être adaptatif, il faut posséder les qualités suivantes : créativité, intelligence, vigueur, résilience, endurance, réactivité, souplesse et agilité.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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