composé
French, noun
composé is spelled C-O-M-P-O-S-É (7 letters) and appears 37 times per million words in written French, the 2,223rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Composé is a French masculine noun meaning “compound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of composer. Without its accent, compose is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Composé chimique”.
What does composé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecompound
verb
- 1
past participle of composer
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. Qui est formé par la réunion d’éléments divers. 2. Qualifie un mot formé de deux ou de plusieurs mots joints. 3. Qualifie le temps d’un verbe dans lequel le participe passé ou l’infinitif de ce verbe sont joints à un verbe auxiliaire. 4. Qualifie l’organe d’une plante, lorsqu’il est divisé.
noun: 1. Composé chimique. 2. Juxtaposition de deux lexèmes pour en former un troisième qui donne un mot à part entière et dont le sens ne se laisse pas forcément deviner par celui des deux constituants.
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 composé
- composés plural
- composée feminine
- composées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to composé
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is composé in French?
composé appears 37 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).