comportévscomporteraTell them apart

Which to use

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

#28,886
“comporté” frequency rank
#39,229
“comportera” frequency rank
68115
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature comporté comportera
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de comporter. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de comporter.

Where the eye mixes comporté and comportera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
comporté
10 ch
comportera

Visual trap between comporté and comportera

A purely visual mix-up. comporté (\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and comportera (\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa\) 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 68115, 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\. comportera is at rank #39,229, tagged as averb, pronounced \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa\.

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 68115, this pair ranks #60,509 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of comporté vs comportera

Shared letters: cmoprt. Private to "comporté": é. Private to "comportera": ae.

"comporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "comportera" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • comporteraccomportera · cmoportera · commportera · comoprtera · comporetra · comporrtera · comportear · comporterra

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "comporté" and "comportera" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are said differently (\kɔ̃.pɔʁ.te\ versus \kɔ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "comporté" vs "comportera" - which ranks higher?
"comporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #28,886 in our French list, against #39,229 for "comportera". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "comporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "comportera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #60,509 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "comporté" and "comportera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "comfort vs comporté". 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 #60,509 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