adopter
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,891
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
adopter is aFrenchverb. It means: Choisir quelqu’un pour fils ou pour fille et lui en donner les droits civils en remplissant certaines conditions prescrites par la loi. Pronounced \a.dɔp.te\. It ranks #3,891 in French word frequency. Often confused with adorer and ajouter.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | adopter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.dɔp.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for adopter is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.dɔp.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,891 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for adopter, with forms such as "addopter", "adopetr", and "adoppter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "adorer", "ajouter", "adoptés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is adopter, spelled A-D-O-P-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Choisir quelqu’un pour fils ou pour fille et lui en donner les droits civils en remplissant certaines conditions prescrites par la loi.
- 2Prendre soin d’un enfant – sans formes légales – comme si c’était son fils ou sa fille.
- 3Admettre, accepter, recevoir comme sien un sentiment, un avis, un projet.
- 4Voter un texte.
- 5Choisir de préférence un genre de travail, une manière de faire quelque chose.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addopter,adopetr,adoppter,adopterr,adoptre,adoptter,adotper,adpoter,aodpter,daopter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for adopter
Misspelling Variants of "adopter"
Frequency rank: #3,891 in French
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Nearby French words
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