composent
\kɔ̃.poz\
The verdict
“composent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,677. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,677
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de composer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-composent · composent · French
composent · rank #8,677 · 14 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,677
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH combattant
Nearest frequency peer: combattant (-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 « composent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- classée
classée
91,328 corpus weight
- cliquez
cliquez
91,327 corpus weight
- colons
colons
91,326 corpus weight
- combattant
combattant
91,325 corpus weight
- composent
composent
91,324 corpus weight
- conseillère
conseillère
91,321 corpus weight
What this shows « composent » 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 | composent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kɔ̃.poz\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « composent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around composent (IPA \kɔ̃.poz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,677 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for composent, with forms such as "ccomposent", "cmoposent", and "commposent". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "compost", "comptent", "composer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is composent, spelled C-O-M-P-O-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de composer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent de composer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how composent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Communément appelées “ethnies montagnardes”, les nombreuses minorités habitant les régions montagneuses du Vietnam composent une véritable mosaïque de peuples.
L’idiome des indigènes de Rawack, de Waiggiou et de la Terre des Papous se ressent de ce sol riche et fécond et de la nature de son climat étouffant ; c’est un fouilli perpétuel sans nul repos, et l’on croirait que les phrases ne se composent que d’un seul mot, ou plutôt que chacun de leurs mots est une longue phrase.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccomposent
- cmoposent
- commposent
- comopsent
- compoesnt
- composennt
- composentt
- composetn
- composnet
- compossent
- compposent
- compsoent
- copmosent
- ocmposent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of composent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).