Which to use
“déporté” and “déportée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #24,562
- “déporté” frequency rank
- #47,306
- “déportée” frequency rank
- 71868
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | déporté | déportée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a été envoyé en déportation dans un endroit inhospitalier, dont il ne revient généralement pas. | Féminin singulier de déporté. |
Same sound, different letters: déporté vs déportée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. déporté runs 7 letters (CVCVCCV) against déportée's 8 (CVCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: déporté vs déportée
This is the hard kind. déporté and déportée are pronounced identically (\de.pɔʁ.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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 extra letter(s) - “déporté” sits inside “déportée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71868, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
déporté is recorded at frequency rank #24,562, classified as anadj, pronounced \de.pɔʁ.te\. déportée is at rank #47,306, tagged as anadj, pronounced \de.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 71868, this pair ranks #45,993 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of déporté vs déportée
Shared letters: doprté. Private to "déporté": -. Private to "déportée": e.
"déporté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV · "déportée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "déporté" and "déportée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "déporté" vs "déportée" - which ranks higher?
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 "déporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "déportée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #45,993 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "déporté" and "déportée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dégoûtée vs déportée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #45,993 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.