adaptation
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adaptation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,310 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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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
- 1Action d’adapter ou de s’adapter.
- 2Modification d’une chose en vue de la rendre adéquate à une nouvelle situation.
- 3Fait pour un service ou produit de bien correspondre aux besoins du marché.
- 4Action ou processus permettant à un organisme ou à une personne de s’ajuster à son milieu ou à de nouvelles conditions.
- 5Caractéristique 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.
- 6Intégration d’une organisation.
- 7Aménagement, dérogation, interprétation.
- 8Dans 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.
- 9Transposition d’une œuvre de l’esprit d’un genre littéraire ou artistique vers un autre.
- 10Œuvre 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
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adaptation
Misspelling Variants of "adaptation"
Frequency rank: #3,310 in French
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