rapport à
\ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\
The verdict
“rapport à” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a preposition. 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) - À cause de.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapport-a · rapport à · French
rapport à · 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 "R" 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 | rapport à |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Preposition |
| IPA | \ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapport à » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapport à is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as apreposition, transcribed \ʁa.pɔ.ʁ‿a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À cause de.".
No misspelling variants are generated for rapport à in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rapport à, spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T- -À.
Definition
- 1À cause de.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapport à appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mon père, si vieux et tout cassé, se plaint de la grande fatigue, rapport à ses tournées dans les bois.
Pata avait dit qu’ils étaient peut-être les seuls survivants, rapport à cette fichue colline qui coupait les pattes des petiots quand ils rentraient de l’école à la fin de la journée...
Synonyms
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.