Which to use
“comporté” and “comporter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,886
- “comporté” frequency rank
- #9,294
- “comporter” frequency rank
- 38180
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | comporté | comporter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier de comporter. | Être muni de, en parlant d’une chose. |
Same sound, different letters: comporté vs comporter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: comporté vs comporter
This is the hard kind. comporté and comporter are pronounced identically (\kɔ̃.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 38180, 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\. comporter is at rank #9,294, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.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 38180, this pair ranks #257,096 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of comporté vs comporter
Shared letters: cmoprt. Private to "comporté": é. Private to "comporter": e.
"comporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV · "comporter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- comporter ← ccomporter · cmoporter · commporter · comoprter · comporetr · comporrter · comporterr · comportre
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "comporté" and "comporter" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "comporté" or "comporter" show up more?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "comporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "comporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #257,096 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "comporté" and "comporter" 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 #257,096 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.