adapté
French, noun
adapté is spelled A-D-A-P-T-É (6 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,992nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adapté is a French masculine noun meaning “adaptee” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of adapter. Without its accent, adapte is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Objet issu d’un adaptateur par conversion”.
What does adapté mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineadaptee
verb
- 1
past participle of adapter
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Fait pour.
noun: 1. Objet issu d’un adaptateur par conversion.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adapté
- adaptés plural
- adaptée feminine
- adaptées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to adapté
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adapté in French?
adapté appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).