mot composé
\mo kɔ̃.po.ze\
The verdict
“mot composé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Mot formé à l’aide de plusieurs mots (gentilhomme, espace-temps, pomme de terre) ou résultant de l'association d'un ou plusieurs affixes entre eux ou avec un radical (céphalalgie, biculturel).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | mot composé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mo kɔ̃.po.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “mot composé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for mot composé is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \mo kɔ̃.po.ze\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mot formé à l’aide de plusieurs mots (gentilhomme, espace-temps, pomme de terre) ou résultant de l'association d'un ou plusieurs affixes entre eux ou avec un radical (céphalalgie, biculturel).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for mot composé in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is mot composé, spelled M-O-T- -C-O-M-P-O-S-É.
Definition
- 1Mot formé à l’aide de plusieurs mots (gentilhomme, espace-temps, pomme de terre) ou résultant de l'association d'un ou plusieurs affixes entre eux ou avec un radical (céphalalgie, biculturel).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “mot composé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is M-O-T- -C-O-M-P-O-S-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \mo kɔ̃.po.ze\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.