compassé
French, adjective
compassé is spelled C-O-M-P-A-S-S-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 26 million words in written French, the 162,920th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Compassé is a French adjective meaning “scrupulous, meticulous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, compasse is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Raide, guindé, plein de retenue”.
What does compassé mean in English?
adjective
- 1
scrupulous, meticulous
- 2
stuffy
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Raide, guindé, plein de retenue.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of compassé
- compassée feminine
- compassés masculine plural
- compassées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is compassé in French?
compassé appears about once in every 26 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).