Which to use
“adaptée” and “adaptées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #6,921
- “adaptée” frequency rank
- #11,336
- “adaptées” frequency rank
- 18257
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | adaptée | adaptées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de adapté. | Féminin pluriel de adapté. |
Same sound, different letters: adaptée vs adaptées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. adaptée runs 7 letters (VCVCCVV) against adaptées's 8 (VCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - adaptée / adaptées
This is the hard kind. adaptée and adaptées are pronounced identically (\a.dap.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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) - “adaptée” sits inside “adaptées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18257, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
adaptée is recorded at frequency rank #6,921, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.dap.te\. adaptées is at rank #11,336, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.dap.te\.
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 18257, this pair ranks #379,245 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of adaptée vs adaptées
Shared letters: adepté. Private to "adaptée": -. Private to "adaptées": s.
"adaptée" · 7 letters · shape VCVCCVV · "adaptées" · 8 letters · shape VCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "adaptée" for "adaptées" ever safe?
Frequency check: "adaptée" vs "adaptées" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "adaptée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "adaptées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #379,245 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "adaptée" and "adaptées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "adaptée vs adoptez". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #379,245 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.