Which to use
“apportées” and “apporter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,910
- “apportées” frequency rank
- #2,065
- “apporter” frequency rank
- 13975
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | apportées | apporter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel 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: apportées vs apporter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: apportées vs apporter
This is the hard kind. apportées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13975, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
apportées is recorded at frequency rank #11,910, 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 13975, this pair ranks #398,739 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of apportées vs apporter
Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "apportées": sé. Private to "apporter": -.
"apportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "apporter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- apporter ← apoprter · aporter · apporetr · apporrter · apporterr · apportre · apportter · appotrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "apportées" and "apporter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "apportées" or "apporter"?
Useful next steps
"apportées" and "apporter" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "apportées" 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 #398,739 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "apportées" and "apporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apportées vs apportons". 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 #398,739 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.