apportéesvsapportezWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#11,910
“apportées” frequency rank
#16,064
“apportez” frequency rank
27974
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: apportées vs apportez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. apportées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against apportez's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
apportées
8 ch
apportez

Homophone desk: apportées vs apportez

This is the hard kind. apportées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 27974, 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\. 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 27974, this pair ranks #325,659 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of apportées vs apportez

Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "apportées": sé. Private to "apportez": z.

"apportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "apportez" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "apportées" 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: "apportées" vs "apportez" - which ranks higher?
"apportées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,910 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.

What to do next

"apportées" and "apportez" 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 "apportez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #325,659 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "apportées" and "apportez" 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 #325,659 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