adaption

Other forms of adaption

plural

adaptions·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adaption

What does adaption mean?

adaption means "the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)".

How many syllables are in adaption?

adaption has 4 syllables: a-dap-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for adaption?

Close synonyms include adaptation, adjustment. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adaption a common word?

adaption is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.