emportéesvsemporteraWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#43,916
“emportées” frequency rank
#29,340
“emportera” frequency rank
73256
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature emportées emportera
Definition Féminin pluriel de emporté. Troisième personne du singulier du futur de emporter.

Where the eye mixes emportées and emportera

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. emportées (VCCVCCVVC) and emportera (VCCVCCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
emportées
9 ch
emportera

Visual trap between emportées and emportera

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: emportées is \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\ while emportera is \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 73256, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

emportées is recorded at frequency rank #43,916, classified as anadj, pronounced \ɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. emportera is at rank #29,340, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɑ̃.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 73256, this pair ranks #41,091 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of emportées vs emportera

Shared letters: emoprt. Private to "emportées": sé. Private to "emportera": a.

"emportées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "emportera" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • emportera ← emmportera · emoprtera · emporetra · emporrtera · emportear · emporterra · emportrea · emporttera

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "emportées" for "emportera" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "emportées" is an adjective and "emportera" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "emportées" vs "emportera" - which ranks higher?
"emportera" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #29,340 in our French list, against #43,916 for "emportées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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 "emportées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "emportera" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,091 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "emportées" and "emportera" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "emportées vs exportées". 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 #41,091 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