mot composé
\mo kɔ̃.po.ze\
The verdict
“mot composé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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).
Corpus desk
Index FR-mot-compose · mot composé · French
mot composé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
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Rare enough to double-check
mot composé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mo kɔ̃.po.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mot composé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un mot composé est une juxtaposition de deux lexèmes libres permettant d’en former un troisième qui soit un lemme (« mot ») à part entière et dont le sens ne se laisse pas forcément deviner par celui des deux constituants.
Synonyms
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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.