Which to use
“adaptation” and “adaptations” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,310
- “adaptation” frequency rank
- #17,608
- “adaptations” frequency rank
- 20918
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adaptation | adaptations |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’adapter ou de s’adapter. | Pluriel de adaptation. |
Same sound, different letters: adaptation vs adaptations
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.
Homophone desk: adaptation vs adaptations
This is the hard kind. adaptation and adaptations are pronounced identically (\a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “adaptation” sits inside “adaptations”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20918, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adaptation is recorded at frequency rank #3,310, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\. adaptations is at rank #17,608, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.dap.ta.sjɔ̃\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 20918, this pair ranks #365,825 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adaptation vs adaptations
Shared letters: adinopt. Private to "adaptation": -. Private to "adaptations": s.
"adaptation" · 10 letters · shape VCVCCVCVVC · "adaptations" · 11 letters · shape VCVCCVCVVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- adaptation ← aadptation · adapattion · adapptation · adaptaiton · adaptatino · adaptationn · adaptatoin · adaptattion
- adaptations ← aadptations · adapattions · adapptations · adaptaitons · adaptatinos · adaptationns · adaptationss · adaptatiosn
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "adaptation" and "adaptations" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "adaptation" or "adaptations" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "adaptation" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adaptations" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #365,825 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #365,825 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.