adéquate

\a.de.kwat\

/\a.de.kwat\/ adj

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The verdict

“adéquate” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,792. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#15,792
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-adequate · adéquate · French

adéquate · rank #15,792 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #15,792
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affectées

Nearest frequency peer: affectées (+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 « adéquate »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « adéquate » 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).

adéquate vs adéquats
88% similar
adéquate vs adéquates
89% similar

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

Key facts for adéquate
PropertyValue
Headwordadéquate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.de.kwat\
Letters8
Frequency rank#15,792
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adéquate »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).adéquatese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affectées » (#15,793), « abonner » (#15,790), « affichée » (#15,794). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adéquate » est au #15,792. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around adéquate (IPA \a.de.kwat\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,792 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de adéquat.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for adéquate, with forms such as "addéquate", "adequate", and "adqéuate". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "adéquats", "adéquates", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is adéquate, spelled A-D-É-Q-U-A-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de adéquat.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Dans les grandes lignes, on peut dire qu’une thérapie est adéquate quand elle permet au patient de revenir aux conditions de santé d’avant la maladie.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • addéquate
  • adequate
  • adqéuate
  • adéqaute
  • adéqquate
  • adéquaet
  • adéquatte
  • adéqutae
  • adéuqate
  • aédquate
  • daéquate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adéquate - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

addéquate1adequate1adqéuate2adéqaute2adéqquate1adéquaet2adéquatte1adéqutae2
Edit distance from "adéquate"

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 "adéquate"?
"adéquate" is spelled A-D-É-Q-U-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.de.kwat\.
What does "adéquate" mean?
As an adjective, "adéquate" means: Féminin singulier de adéquat.
What words are commonly confused with "adéquate"?
"adéquate" is commonly confused with "adéquats", "adéquates". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adéquate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adéquate" is \a.de.kwat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adéquate" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

affichée#15,794éthiques#15,786amnistie#15,799équipées#15,784

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

bandits11 variantsBeyoncé11 variantssouliers11 variantsboursier11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list