Which to use
“comporté” and “comportent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,886
- “comporté” frequency rank
- #9,138
- “comportent” frequency rank
- 38024
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | comporté | comportent |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de comporter. | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de comporter. |
Where the eye mixes comporté and comportent
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. comporté runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against comportent's 10 (CVCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses comporté with comportent
A purely visual mix-up. comporté (\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and comportent (\kɔ̃.pɔʁt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38024, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
comporté is recorded at frequency rank #28,886, classified as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te\. comportent is at rank #9,138, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.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 38024, this pair ranks #258,239 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of comporté vs comportent
Shared letters: cmoprt. Private to "comporté": é. Private to "comportent": en.
"comporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "comportent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- comportent ← ccomportent · cmoportent · commportent · comoprtent · comporetnt · comporrtent · comportennt · comportentt
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "comporté" for "comportent" ever safe?
Which is more common, "comporté" or "comportent"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "comporté" and "comportent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "comporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "comportent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #258,239 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "comporté" and "comportent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "comporté vs comportera". 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 #258,239 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.