adaptative

\a.dap.ta.tiv\

/\a.dap.ta.tiv\/ adj

The verdict

“adaptative” is uncommon French (frequency #61,278 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#61,278
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de adaptatif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adaptative · adaptative · French

adaptative · rank #61,278 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #61,278
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH adaptateurs

Nearest frequency peer: adaptateurs (-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 « adaptative »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adaptative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for adaptative
PropertyValue
Headwordadaptative
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.dap.ta.tiv\
Letters10
Frequency rank#61,278
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « adaptative » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).adaptativetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « adaptateurs » (#61,277), « adaptera » (#61,279), « acter » (#61,276). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adaptative » est au #61,278. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

adaptative is uncommon French at frequency #61,278 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.dap.ta.tiv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de adaptatif.".

Zero misspellings are on record for adaptative in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is adaptative, spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-V-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de adaptatif.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how adaptative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pour Lacan, l’orientation des postfreudiens, en promouvant une visée adaptative du moi à la réalité, s’est construite sur l'oubli de la découverte de Freud.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "adaptative"?
"adaptative" is spelled A-D-A-P-T-A-T-I-V-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dap.ta.tiv\.
What does "adaptative" mean?
As an adjective, "adaptative" means: Féminin singulier de adaptatif.
How do you pronounce "adaptative"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adaptative" is \a.dap.ta.tiv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adaptative" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "adaptative", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list