Adapter
\a.ˈdap.tɐ\
The verdict
“Adapter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,032. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adaptateur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adapter · Adapter · French
Adapter · rank #4,032 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,032
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accueille
Nearest frequency peer: accueille (-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 « Adapter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- viol
viol
95,971 corpus weight
- accueille
accueille
95,970 corpus weight
- Adapter
Adapter
95,969 corpus weight
- affronter
affronter
95,968 corpus weight
- africain
africain
95,967 corpus weight
- africaine
africaine
95,966 corpus weight
What this shows « Adapter » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adapter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ˈdap.tɐ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Adapter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Adapter (IPA \a.ˈdap.tɐ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,032 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Adaptateur.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Adapter, with forms such as "aadpter", "adapetr", and "adappter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "adopté", "adepte", "adopter", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Adapter, spelled A-D-A-P-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Adaptateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Adapter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ich benötige für diesen Plattenspieler einen Adapter, um ihn an der Stereoanlage noch anschließen zu können. : J'ai besoin d’un adaptateur pour ma platine disques pour pouvoir la brancher sur ma chaîne stéréo.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aadpter
- adapetr
- adappter
- adapterr
- adaptre
- adaptter
- adatper
- addapter
- adpater
- daapter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Adapter - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).