adoptant
\a.dɔp.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“adoptant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,327. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,327
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui adopte quelqu’un légalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adoptant · adoptant · French
adoptant · rank #17,327 · 12 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,327
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Adolphe
Nearest frequency peer: Adolphe (-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 « adoptant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accueillera
accueillera
82,677 corpus weight
- Adolphe
Adolphe
82,675 corpus weight
- adoptant
adoptant
82,674 corpus weight
- adoptent
adoptent
82,673 corpus weight
- adoration
adoration
82,672 corpus weight
- ADP
ADP
82,671 corpus weight
What this shows « adoptant » 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 | adoptant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.dɔp.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,327 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adoptant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around adoptant (IPA \a.dɔp.tɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #17,327 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Personne qui adopte quelqu’un légalement.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for adoptant, with forms such as "addoptant", "adopatnt", and "adopptant". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "ajoutant", "adoptent", "adaptent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is adoptant, spelled A-D-O-P-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Personne qui adopte quelqu’un légalement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how adoptant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À chaque adoptante qui passait, avec sa part, devant lui, le docteur Chazey glissait en douceur : – Ne manquez pas de m’amener le plus tôt possible votre réfugié, afin que j’établisse sa fiche sanitaire.
En effet, votre ambition ne se borne pas à améliorer les modalités de l’adoption, en ce qui concerne les conditions de l’abandon et du choix éventuel des adoptants, mais également à rechercher, sans préjugés ni parti pris, ce qui peut et devrait être fait pour que l’enfant délaissé trouve les meilleures chances d’épanouissement pour le présent et l’avenir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- addoptant
- adopatnt
- adopptant
- adoptannt
- adoptantt
- adoptatn
- adoptnat
- adopttant
- adotpant
- adpotant
- aodptant
- daoptant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of adoptant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).