adoptant

\a.dɔp.tɑ̃\

/\a.dɔp.tɑ̃\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « adoptant » 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).

adoptant vs ajoutant
75% similar
adoptant vs adoptent
88% similar
adoptant vs adaptent
75% similar

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

Key facts for adoptant
PropertyValue
Headwordadoptant
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.dɔp.tɑ̃\
Letters8
Frequency rank#17,327
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « adoptant »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.adoptantse 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 « Adolphe » (#17,326), « adoptent » (#17,328), « adoration » (#17,329). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « adoptant » est au #17,327. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Personne qui adopte quelqu’un légalement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

addoptant1adopatnt2adopptant1adoptannt1adoptantt1adoptatn2adoptnat2adopttant1
Edit distance from "adoptant"

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 "adoptant"?
"adoptant" is spelled A-D-O-P-T-A-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.dɔp.tɑ̃\.
What does "adoptant" mean?
As a noun, "adoptant" means: Personne qui adopte quelqu’un légalement.
What words are commonly confused with "adoptant"?
"adoptant" is commonly confused with "ajoutant", "adoptent", "adaptent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "adoptant"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "adoptant" is \a.dɔp.tɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "adoptant" come from?
"adoptant" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list