déportéevsdéporterTell them apart

Quick tell: déportée is a adjective, déporter is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“déportée” is an adjective and “déporter” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#47,306
“déportée” frequency rank
#40,229
“déporter” frequency rank
87535
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature déportée déporter
Definition Féminin singulier de déporté. Punir de la peine de la déportation, exiler.

Same sound, different letters: déportée vs déporter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. déportée (CVCVCCVV) and déporter (CVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
déportée
8 ch
déporter

Ear matches; page differs - déportée and déporter

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: déportée and déporter carry the same recorded pronunciation, \de.pɔʁ.te\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 87535, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

déportée is recorded at frequency rank #47,306, classified as anadj, pronounced \de.pɔʁ.te\. déporter is at rank #40,229, tagged as averb, 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 87535, this pair ranks #8,152 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of déportée vs déporter

Shared letters: deoprté. Private to "déportée": -. Private to "déporter": -.

"déportée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "déporter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "déportée" for "déporter" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "déportée" is an adjective and "déporter" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "déportée" vs "déporter" - which ranks higher?
"déporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #40,229 in our French list, against #47,306 for "déportée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "déportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "déporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #8,152 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "déportée" and "déporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "dégoûtée vs déportée". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #8,152 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