rapport
/ɹæˈpɔɹ/noun
rapport is spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T. The wrong spelling people search most is repoire: about 810 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Rapport is a noun meaning “A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups…”. The plural of rapport is rapports.
How many letters and syllables are in rapport?
| Letters | 7: R-A-P-P-O-R-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words; the 23,253rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, repoire, about 810 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell rapport?
Rapport is spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for rapport in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is rapport?
Rapport appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce rapport?
- US /ɹæˈpɔɹ/
- US /ɹəˈpɔɹ/
Rapport has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-rapport.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with rapport?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as rapport from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of rapport
- rapports plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rapport mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A relationship of mutual trust and respect; a close and harmonious relationship in which the people or groups concerned understand each other's feelings or ideas and communicate well.
He always tried to maintain a rapport with his customers.
- 2
Relation; proportion; conformity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rapport in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relationship of mutual trust and respect:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | gutes Verhältnis, vertrauensvolles Verhältnis, harmonisches Verhältnis, guter Draht |
| Spanish | compenetración, afinidad, relación, conexión, nexo, vínculo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does rapport come from?
Borrowed from French rapport. Doublet of report.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).