composée
\kɔ̃.po.ze\
The verdict
“composée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,597. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,597
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante de la famille des Composées, aujourd'hui Astéracées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-composee · composée · French
composée · rank #3,597 · 12 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,597
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH citer
Nearest frequency peer: citer (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “composée”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- canadiens
canadiens
96,407 corpus weight
- censé
censé
96,406 corpus weight
- citer
citer
96,405 corpus weight
- composée
composée
96,404 corpus weight
- comprennent
comprennent
96,403 corpus weight
- conflits
conflits
96,402 corpus weight
What this shows “composée” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
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 | composée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “composée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around composée (IPA \kɔ̃.po.ze\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,597 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for composée, with forms such as "ccomposée", "cmoposée", and "commposée". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "compote", "compost", "composer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is composée, spelled C-O-M-P-O-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Plante de la famille des Composées, aujourd'hui Astéracées.
- 2Fonction composée, c’est-à-dire obtenue par composition de deux fonctions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how composée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Voici une composée que je n'arrive pas à déterminer, prise le 15 mai dans un lieu sec et rocailleux.
A Mayence se trouve une colonie sarmatique intéressante où les sables portent des Stipa et diverses Composées.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomposée
- cmoposée
- commposée
- comopsée
- composee
- composeé
- compossée
- compoése
- compposée
- compsoée
- copmosée
- ocmposée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of composée - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "composée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).