rapportaient

\ʁa.pɔʁ.tɛ\

/\ʁa.pɔʁ.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“rapportaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,890. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,890
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rapporter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rapportaient · rapportaient · French

rapportaient · rank #49,890 · 16 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,890
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH RAMQ

Nearest frequency peer: RAMQ (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rapportaient »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « rapportaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

rapportaient vs rapportent
83% similar
rapportaient vs rapportant
83% similar
rapportaient vs rapportait
83% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for rapportaient
PropertyValue
Headwordrapportaient
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ʁa.pɔʁ.tɛ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#49,890
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rapportaient »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rapportaientse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « RAMQ » (#49,889), « rationaliste » (#49,891), « rallient » (#49,888). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rapportaient » est au #49,890. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around rapportaient (IPA \ʁa.pɔʁ.tɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,890 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rapporter.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for rapportaient, with forms such as "arpportaient", "rapoprtaient", and "raportaient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "rapportent", "rapportant", "rapportait", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is rapportaient, spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rapporter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how rapportaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces pièces, ces vaudevilles, toujours ajoutés aux drames à succès, rapportaient à Gaudissart quelques pièces d’or par jour.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • arpportaient
  • rapoprtaient
  • raportaient
  • rapporatient
  • rapporrtaient
  • rapportaeint
  • rapportaiennt
  • rapportaientt
  • rapportaietn
  • rapportainet
  • rapportiaent
  • rapporttaient
  • rappotraient
  • rapprotaient
  • rpaportaient
  • rrapportaient

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rapportaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

arpportaient2rapoprtaient2raportaient1rapporatient2rapporrtaient1rapportaeint2rapportaiennt1rapportaientt1
Edit distance from "rapportaient"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rapportaient"?
"rapportaient" is spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T-A-I-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.pɔʁ.tɛ\.
What does "rapportaient" mean?
As a verb, "rapportaient" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de rapporter.
What words are commonly confused with "rapportaient"?
"rapportaient" is commonly confused with "rapportent", "rapportant", "rapportait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rapportaient"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rapportaient" is \ʁa.pɔʁ.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rapportaient" come from?
"rapportaient" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "rapportaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list