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“apportée” and “apportées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#13,317
“apportée” frequency rank
#11,910
“apportées” frequency rank
25227
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature apportée apportées
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe apporter. Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe apporter.

Same sound, different letters: apportée vs apportées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. apportée runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVV) against apportées's 9 (VCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
apportée
9 ch
apportées

Same sound, different spelling - apportée / apportées

This is the hard kind. apportée and apportées are pronounced identically (\a.pɔʁ.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “apportée” sits inside “apportées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25227, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

apportée is recorded at frequency rank #13,317, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pɔʁ.te\. apportées is at rank #11,910, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.pɔʁ.te\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 25227, this pair ranks #342,057 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of apportée vs apportées

Shared letters: aeoprté. Private to "apportée": -. Private to "apportées": s.

"apportée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "apportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "apportée" and "apportées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.pɔʁ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "apportée" vs "apportées" - which ranks higher?
"apportées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,910 in our French list, against #13,317 for "apportée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've separated the homophone pair "apportée" / "apportées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "apportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "apportées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #342,057 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "apportée" and "apportées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apportée vs apposée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #342,057 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list