adapte

\a.dapt\

/\a.dapt\/ verb

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The verdict

“adapte” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,269
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
16
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe adapter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-adapte · adapte · French

adapte · rank #10,269 · 8 variants · 16 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,269
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 16 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH achevée

Nearest frequency peer: achevée (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « adapte »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « adapte » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

adapte vs apte
67% similar
adapte vs adopté
67% similar
adapte vs adulte
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for adapte
PropertyValue
Headwordadapte
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.dapt\
Letters6
Frequency rank#10,269
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs16
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adapte »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adaptese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « achevée » (#10,268), « allées » (#10,270), « accompagnent » (#10,267). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adapte » est au #10,269. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around adapte (IPA \a.dapt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,269 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for adapte, with forms such as "aadpte", "adapet", and "adappte". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 16 confusable-pair relationships, "apte", "adopté", "adulte", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is adapte, spelled A-D-A-P-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe adapter.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe adapter.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe adapter.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe adapter.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe adapter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il adapte ses vieux principes du Minorange au monde du cinéma : s’offrir les meilleurs réalisateurs pour être sûr d’avoir des « produits uniques », gérer au plus près les budgets et prévendre les films avant la première journée de tournage, comme on vend un immeuble sur appartement témoin avant même de creuser les fondations.
  2. Non genré, plus oversized et uniforme dans les couleurs et les matières, le style de la jupe assemblée au pantalon s’adapte parfaitement à l’époque.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aadpte
  • adapet
  • adappte
  • adaptte
  • adatpe
  • addapte
  • adpate
  • daapte

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adapte - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aadpte2adapet2adappte1adaptte1adatpe2addapte1adpate2daapte2
Edit distance from "adapte"

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 "adapte"?
"adapte" is spelled A-D-A-P-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dapt\.
What does "adapte" mean?
As a verb, "adapte" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe adapter.
What words are commonly confused with "adapte"?
"adapte" is commonly confused with "apte", "adopté", "adulte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adapte"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adapte" is \a.dapt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adapte" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

allées#10,270amélie#10,271Bayrou#10,278blaise#10,280

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

poivre8 variantsmanoir8 variantsmenés8 variantsisolée8 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list