rapporteure

\ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\

/\ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“rapporteure” is uncommon French (frequency #56,857 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#56,857
frequency rank, French
5,742
“R” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui est chargée de faire un rapport.

Corpus desk

Index FR-rapporteure · rapporteure · French

rapporteure · rank #56,857 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #56,857
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,742
  • PHOTO-FINISH rapprochera

Nearest frequency peer: rapprochera (+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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « rapporteure »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rapporteure » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for rapporteure
PropertyValue
Headwordrapporteure
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#56,857
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « rapporteure » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).rapporteuretombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « rapprochera » (#56,858), « railroad » (#56,855), « radiologue » (#56,854). Parmi 5,742 lemmes en « R », « rapporteure » est au #56,857. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

rapporteure is uncommon French at frequency #56,857 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celle qui est chargée de faire un rapport.".

No misspelling variants are generated for rapporteure in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is rapporteure, spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T-E-U-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui est chargée de faire un rapport.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Ce ne serait rien s’ils n’étaient encouragés dans leur réflexe antédiluvien par Chantal Brunel (UMP), qui, en tant que rapporteure générale de l’Observatoire de la parité, ne trouve rien de mieux, pour aider les femmes à s’imposer au Parlement, que de commencer par les orienter vers le bordel le plus proche.
  2. La rapporteure spéciale sur les défenseurs des droits humains est profondément préoccupée par les campagnes incessantes de dénigrement et les menaces violentes dirigées contre les personnes qui défendent les droits des lesbiennes, des homosexuels, des bisexuels et des transsexuels.

Synonyms

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 "rapporteure"?
"rapporteure" is spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T-E-U-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\.
What does "rapporteure" mean?
As a noun, "rapporteure" means: Celle qui est chargée de faire un rapport.
How do you pronounce "rapporteure"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rapporteure" is \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list