adoptee

1. 1.

   someone (such as a child) who has been adopted

   Broaderperson

Other forms of adoptee

plural

adoptees·

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 adoptee

What does adoptee mean?

adoptee means "someone (such as a child) who has been adopted".

How many syllables are in adoptee?

adoptee has 3 syllables: a-dop-tee. The stress falls on "dop". In IPA it is /əˈdɑpˈti/.

Is adoptee a common word?

adoptee 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.

What rhymes with adoptee?

66 words rhyme with adoptee. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.