Which to use
“apportée” and “apporter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #13,317
- “apportée” frequency rank
- #2,065
- “apporter” frequency rank
- 15382
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | apportée | apporter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe apporter. | Porter quelque chose à quelqu’un. — Note d’usage : L’objet du verbe apporter est toujours un inanimé. |
Same sound, different letters: apportée vs apporter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: apportée vs apporter
This is the hard kind. apportée and apporter 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 15382, 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\. apporter is at rank #2,065, 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 15382, this pair ranks #392,616 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of apportée vs apporter
Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "apportée": é. Private to "apporter": -.
"apportée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "apporter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- apporter ← apoprter · aporter · apporetr · apporrter · apporterr · apportre · apportter · appotrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "apportée" for "apporter" ever safe?
Frequency check: "apportée" vs "apporter" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "apportée" / "apporter". 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 "apporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #392,616 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "apportée" and "apporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apportée vs apposée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #392,616 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.