adoption
French, noun/a.dɔp.sjɔ̃/
adoption is spelled A-D-O-P-T-I-O-N (8 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 3,908th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adoption is a French feminine noun meaning “adoption” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’adopter”.
What does adoption mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadoption
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’adopter. 2. Action d’admettre, de recevoir comme sien, soit au propre, soit au figuré. 3. Adoption d'un processus orphelin par un autre plus ancien. 4. Adoption d’un texte de caractère par exemple législatif.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adoption
- adoptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adoption?
- /a.dɔp.sjɔ̃/
- \a.dɔp.sjɔ̃\
- [yn a.dɔp.sjɔ̃]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adoption
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adoption in French?
adoption appears 19 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).