# report

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɹɪˈpɔːt/ · frequency rank #481

## Definitions
1. To relate details of (an event or incident); to recount, describe (something).
2. To repeat (something one has heard), to retell; to pass on, convey (a message, information etc.).
3. To take oneself (to someone or something) for guidance or support; to appeal.
4. To notify someone of (particular intelligence, suspicions, illegality, misconduct etc.); to make notification to relevant authorities; to submit a formal report of.
5. To make a formal statement, especially of complaint, about (someone).
6. To show up or appear at an appointed time; to present oneself.
7. To write news reports (for); to cover as a journalist or reporter.
8. To be accountable to or subordinate to (someone) in a hierarchy; to receive orders from (someone); to give official updates to (someone who is above oneself in a hierarchy).
9. To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred.
10. To take minutes of (a speech, the doings of a public body, etc.); to write down from the lips of a speaker.
11. To refer.
12. To return or repeat, as sound; to echo.
13. Of a ship, to return to a port.

## Etymology
From Middle English reporten, from Anglo-Norman reporter, from Latin reportāre (“to carry back, return, remit, refer”), from re- + portāre.

## Easily confused with
- **resort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-resort)
- **revolt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-revolt)
- **Rupert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-rupert)
- **repost** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-repost)
- **revert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-revert)
- **retort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-retort)
- **rework** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-rework)
- **repose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-repose)
- **reports** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-reports)
- **reported** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-reported)
- **reporter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-reporter)
- **repo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repo-vs-report)
- **record** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/record-vs-report)
- **reform** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reform-vs-report)
- **repeat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-report)
- **reboot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reboot-vs-report)
- **reborn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/reborn-vs-report)
- **repent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repent-vs-report)
- **rapport** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rapport-vs-report)

## Common misspellings (9)
`erport`, `reoprt`, `reporrt`, `reportt`, `repotr`, `repport`, `reprot`, `rpeort`, `rreport`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/report