postposer
\pɔst.pɔ.ze\
The verdict
“postposer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Placer un mot après un autre auquel il se rapporte grammaticalement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-postposer · postposer · French
postposer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | postposer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pɔst.pɔ.ze\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « postposer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
postposer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pɔst.pɔ.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for postposer, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is postposer, spelled P-O-S-T-P-O-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Placer un mot après un autre auquel il se rapporte grammaticalement.
- 2Remettre quelque chose à plus tard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how postposer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En français, les phrases relatives sont toujours postposées.
Dès les Textes de Pyramides, ces déictifs situatifs, locatifs, se postposent comme déterminants ; or dès le troisième millénaire s’amorce déjà le renversement positionnel qui va perdurer jusqu’en copte : ils tendent à précéder le déterminé et à se proclitiser.
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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.