préposé
French, noun
préposé is spelled P-R-É-P-O-S-É (7 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written French, the 28,870th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Préposé is a French masculine noun meaning “appointee, someone who is charged with overseeing a task, one who is responsible” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of préposer. With an accent, prépose is a different word: “first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Employé attaché à une tâche”.
What does préposé mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineappointee, someone who is charged with overseeing a task, one who is responsible
verb
- 1
past participle of préposer
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Employé attaché à une tâche.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of préposé
- préposés plural
- préposée feminine
- préposées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is préposé in French?
préposé appears 1.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).