apportentvsapportesTell them apart

Which to use

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

#8,067
“apportent” frequency rank
#32,681
“apportes” frequency rank
40748
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature apportent apportes
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe apporter. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apporter.

Same sound, different letters: apportent vs apportes

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

9 ch
apportent
8 ch
apportes

Ear matches; page differs - apportent and apportes

This is the hard kind. apportent and apportes are pronounced identically (\a.pɔʁt\) 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 40748, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

apportent is recorded at frequency rank #8,067, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pɔʁt\. apportes is at rank #32,681, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.pɔʁt\.

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 40748, this pair ranks #238,192 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of apportent vs apportes

Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "apportent": n. Private to "apportes": s.

"apportent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC  ·  "apportes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • apportent ← apoprtent · aportent · apporetnt · apporrtent · apportennt · apportentt · apportetn · apportnet
  • apportes ← apoprtes · aportes · apporets · apporrtes · apportess · apportse · apporttes · appotres

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "apportent" and "apportes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.pɔʁt\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "apportent" vs "apportes" - which ranks higher?
"apportent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,067 in our French list, against #32,681 for "apportes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"apportent" and "apportes" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "apportent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "apportes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #238,192 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "apportent" and "apportes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apportes 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 #238,192 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