rapporteurs

/\ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\/ adj

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,669

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

rapporteurs is anFrenchadj. It means: Masculin pluriel de rapporteur. Pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Often confused with rapporter and rapportés.

Key facts for rapporteurs
PropertyValue
Headwordrapporteurs
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#35,669
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of rapporteurs in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for rapporteurs is 11 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #35,669 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Masculin pluriel de rapporteur.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for rapporteurs, with forms such as "arpporteurs", "rapoprteurs", and "raporteurs". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "rapporter", "rapportés", "rapporteur", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is rapporteurs, spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T-E-U-R-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de rapporteur.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arpporteurs,rapoprteurs,raporteurs,rapporeturs,rapporrteurs,rapporterus,rapporteurrs,rapporteurss,rapporteusr,rapportteurs,rapportuers,rappotreurs,rapproteurs,rpaporteurs,rrapporteurs

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for rapporteurs

Misspelling Variants of "rapporteurs"

arpporteurs11rapoprteurs11raporteurs10rapporeturs11rapporrteurs12rapporterus11rapporteurrs12rapporteurss12
Misspelling Variants of "rapporteurs"

Frequency rank: #35,669 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "rapporteurs"?
"rapporteurs" is spelled R-A-P-P-O-R-T-E-U-R-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\.
What does "rapporteurs" mean?
As an adj, "rapporteurs" means: Masculin pluriel de rapporteur.
What words are commonly confused with "rapporteurs"?
"rapporteurs" is commonly confused with "rapporter", "rapportés", "rapporteur". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "rapporteurs"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "rapporteurs" is \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "rapporteurs" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.