Which to use
“emporta” is a verb and “emporté” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #43,915
- “emporta” frequency rank
- #8,385
- “emporté” frequency rank
- 52300
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | emporta | emporté |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de emporter. | Qui est enclin à s’emporter de colère. |
Where the eye mixes emporta and emporté
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. emporta and emporté follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: emporta vs emporté
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: emporta is \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\ while emporté is \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by a single letter - a in “emporta” becomes é in “emporté”, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52300, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
emporta is recorded at frequency rank #43,915, classified as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\. emporté is at rank #8,385, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.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 52300, this pair ranks #148,666 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of emporta vs emporté
Shared letters: emoprt. Private to "emporta": a. Private to "emporté": é.
"emporta" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV · "emporté" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- emporta ← emmporta · emoprta · emporat · emporrta · emportta · empotra · empporta · emprota
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "emporta" and "emporté" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "emporta" vs "emporté" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "emporta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "emporté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #148,666 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "emporta" and "emporté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "emporta vs emportait". 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 #148,666 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.