reportervsresortedWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: reporter is a noun, resorted is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“reporter” is a noun and “resorted” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,976
“reporter” frequency rank
#21,638
“resorted” frequency rank
25614
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reporter resorted
Definition Someone or something that reports. simple past and past participle of resort

Letter map: reporter vs resorted

Shared letters muted; letters that set reporter and resorted apart highlighted. Shared run: 6.

8 ch
reporter
8 ch
resorted

Part-of-speech tell for reporter / resorted

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: reporter is anoun and resortedaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25614, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

reporter is recorded at frequency rank #3,976, classified as anoun, pronounced /ɹɪˈpɔː.tə/. resorted is at rank #21,638, tagged as averb.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 25614, this pair ranks #392,915 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reporter vs resorted

Shared letters: eort. Private to "reporter": p. Private to "resorted": ds.

"reporter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC  ·  "resorted" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reportererporter · reoprter · reporetr · reporrter · reporterr · reportre · reportter · repotrer
  • resortedersorted · reosrted · resoretd · resorrted · resortde · resortedd · resortted · resroted

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "reporter" for "resorted" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "reporter" is a noun and "resorted" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "reporter" vs "resorted" - which ranks higher?
"reporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,976 in our English list, against #21,638 for "resorted". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "reporter" vs "resorted" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "reporter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "resorted" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #392,915 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reporter" and "resorted" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "resorted vs retorted". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #392,915 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list