Which to use
“rapport” is a noun and “rapportée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #304
- “rapport” frequency rank
- #18,034
- “rapportée” frequency rank
- 18338
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rapport | rapportée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Revenu, produit d’une chose. | Féminin singulier de rapporté. |
Where the eye mixes rapport and rapportée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. rapport runs 7 letters (CVCCVCC) against rapportée's 9 (CVCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: rapport vs rapportée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rapport is \ʁa.pɔʁ\ while rapportée is \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “rapport” sits inside “rapportée”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 18338, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rapport is recorded at frequency rank #304, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁ\. rapportée is at rank #18,034, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.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 18338, this pair ranks #378,839 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of rapport vs rapportée
Shared letters: aoprt. Private to "rapport": -. Private to "rapportée": eé.
"rapport" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVCC · "rapportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- rapport ← arpport · rapoprt · raport · rapporrt · rapportt · rappotr · rapprot · rpaport
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "rapport" and "rapportée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "rapport" or "rapportée"?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "rapport" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rapportée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #378,839 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rapport" and "rapportée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rapporta vs rapportée". 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 #378,839 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.