composaient
\kɔ̃.po.zɛ\
The verdict
“composaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,852
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de composer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-composaient · composaient · French
composaient · rank #43,852 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,852
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH colocs
Nearest frequency peer: colocs (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « composaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- coal
coal
56,152 corpus weight
- collez
collez
56,151 corpus weight
- colocs
colocs
56,150 corpus weight
- composaient
composaient
56,149 corpus weight
- compromissi…
compromission
56,148 corpus weight
- concordent
concordent
56,147 corpus weight
What this shows « composaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | composaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.po.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #43,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « composaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around composaient (IPA \kɔ̃.po.zɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #43,852 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de composer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for composaient, with forms such as "ccomposaient", "cmoposaient", and "commposaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "composent", "composant", "composait", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is composaient, spelled C-O-M-P-O-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de composer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how composaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les familles qui composaient cette espèce de coterie se festoyaient à tour de rôle.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomposaient
- cmoposaient
- commposaient
- comopsaient
- compoasient
- composaeint
- composaiennt
- composaientt
- composaietn
- composainet
- composiaent
- compossaient
- compposaient
- compsoaient
- copmosaient
- ocmposaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of composaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).