artiste de complément
\aʁ.tist də kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“artiste de complément” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 21
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui au théâtre ou au cinéma remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-artiste-de-complement · artiste de complément · French
artiste de complément · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 21 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | artiste de complément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.tist də kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 21 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « artiste de complément » en français
Rare enough to double-check
artiste de complément is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \aʁ.tist də kɔ̃.ple.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui au théâtre ou au cinéma remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.".
artiste de complément doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is artiste de complément, spelled A-R-T-I-S-T-E- -D-E- -C-O-M-P-L-É-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Personne qui au théâtre ou au cinéma remplit un rôle généralement muet et secondaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how artiste de complément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Naïf, Simon confia même à l’un de ces « artistes de complément » qu’il venait là pour s’instruire, non pour le cachet. — La vache ! T’as du fiel, toi ! Eh ben, nous, mon vieux, on est ici pour gagner notre bifteck, t’entends ! Le cinéma, on s’en tape.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.