adaptation

/\a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

10 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,310

in French word usage

Misspellings

14

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

adaptation is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’adapter ou de s’adapter. Pronounced \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #3,310 in French word frequency. Often confused with adaptations.

Key facts for adaptation
PropertyValue
Headwordadaptation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\
Letters10
Frequency rank#3,310
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for adaptation is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,310 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for adaptation, with forms such as "aadptation", "adapattion", and "adapptation". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "adaptations", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 adaptation, spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’adapter ou de s’adapter.
  2. 2
    Modification d’une chose en vue de la rendre adéquate à une nouvelle situation.
  3. 3
    Fait pour un service ou produit de bien correspondre aux besoins du marché.
  4. 4
    Action ou processus permettant à un organisme ou à une personne de s’ajuster à son milieu ou à de nouvelles conditions.
  5. 5
    Caractéristique héréditaire résultant de la sélection naturelle, qui confère un avantage à un organisme dans un milieu donné. Elle peut notamment provenir d’une mutation ou d’une recombinaison génétique.
  6. 6
    Intégration d’une organisation.
  7. 7
    Aménagement, dérogation, interprétation.
  8. 8
    Dans le domaine de la fatigue des matériaux, désigne un écrouissage faisant que la sollicitation provoque de la déformation plastique lors des premiers cycles, mais passe rapidement dans le domaine élastique.
  9. 9
    Transposition d’une œuvre de l’esprit d’un genre littéraire ou artistique vers un autre.
  10. 10
    Œuvre résultant de cette action de transposition.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aadptation,adapattion,adapptation,adaptaiton,adaptatino,adaptationn,adaptatoin,adaptattion,adapttaion,adapttation,adatpation,addaptation,adpatation,daaptation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adaptation

Misspelling Variants of "adaptation"

aadptation10adapattion10adapptation11adaptaiton10adaptatino10adaptationn11adaptatoin10adaptattion11
Misspelling Variants of "adaptation"

Frequency rank: #3,310 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adaptation"?
"adaptation" is spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\.
What does "adaptation" mean?
As a noun, "adaptation" means: Action d’adapter ou de s’adapter.
What words are commonly confused with "adaptation"?
"adaptation" is commonly confused with "adaptations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adaptation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adaptation" is \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adaptation" come from?
"adaptation" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.