adaptative
\a.dap.ta.tiv\
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
- acter
acter
38,725 corpus weight
- adaptateurs
adaptateurs
38,724 corpus weight
- adaptative
adaptative
38,723 corpus weight
- adaptera
adaptera
38,722 corpus weight
- adossées
adossées
38,721 corpus weight
- advisor
advisor
38,720 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « adaptative » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adaptative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.dap.ta.tiv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #61,278 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « adaptative » en français
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
- 1Féminin singulier de adaptatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how adaptative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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