composé
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,219
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
composé is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui est formé par la réunion d’éléments divers. Pronounced \kɔ̃.po.ze\. It ranks #2,219 in French word frequency. Often confused with compte and coupole.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | composé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for composé is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɔ̃.po.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,219 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for composé, with forms such as "ccomposé", "cmoposé", and "commposé". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "compte", "coupole", "compote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is composé, spelled C-O-M-P-O-S-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui est formé par la réunion d’éléments divers.
- 2Qualifie un mot formé de deux ou de plusieurs mots joints.
- 3Qualifie le temps d’un verbe dans lequel le participe passé ou l’infinitif de ce verbe sont joints à un verbe auxiliaire.
- 4Qualifie l’organe d’une plante, lorsqu’il est divisé.
- 5Qualifie l’organe d’une plante, lorsqu’il est divisé.
- 6Qualifie l’organe d’une plante, lorsqu’il est divisé.
- 7Qualifie l’organe d’une plante, lorsqu’il est divisé.
- 8Qualifie un mouvement qui résulte de plusieurs autres mouvements.
- 9Formé de deux ou de plusieurs éléments mathématiques sous-jacents.
- 10Composite.
- 11Qui affecte d’avoir un air grave, un air sérieux, en parlant des personnes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccomposé,cmoposé,commposé,comopsé,compose,compossé,compoés,compposé,compsoé,copmosé,ocmposé
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for composé
Misspelling Variants of "composé"
Frequency rank: #2,219 in French
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Nearby French words
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