apportéevsapportezConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#13,317
“apportée” frequency rank
#16,064
“apportez” frequency rank
29381
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature apportée apportez
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe apporter. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe apporter.

Same sound, different letters: apportée vs apportez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. apportée (VCCVCCVV) and apportez (VCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
apportée
8 ch
apportez

Homophone desk: apportée vs apportez

This is the hard kind. apportée and apportez 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 29381, 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\. apportez is at rank #16,064, 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 29381, this pair ranks #317,042 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of apportée vs apportez

Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "apportée": é. Private to "apportez": z.

"apportée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "apportez" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • apportez ← apoprtez · aportez · apporetz · apporrtez · apportezz · apporttez · apportze · appotrez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "apportée" and "apportez" 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 "apportez" - which ranks higher?
"apportée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,317 in our French list, against #16,064 for "apportez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "apportée" / "apportez". 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 "apportez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #317,042 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "apportée" and "apportez" 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 #317,042 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