rapportavsrapportéeWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: rapporta is a verb, rapportée is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

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

#44,129
“rapporta” frequency rank
#18,034
“rapportée” frequency rank
62163
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rapporta rapportée
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rapporter. Féminin singulier de rapporté.

Where the eye mixes rapporta and rapportée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. rapporta runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against rapportée's 9 (CVCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
rapporta
9 ch
rapportée

Look-alike desk: rapporta vs rapportée

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rapporta is \ʁa.pɔʁ.ta\ while rapportée is \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62163, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rapporta is recorded at frequency rank #44,129, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁ.ta\. 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 62163, this pair ranks #88,532 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rapporta vs rapportée

Shared letters: aoprt. Private to "rapporta": -. Private to "rapportée": eé.

"rapporta" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "rapportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rapporta ← arpporta · rapoprta · raporta · rapporat · rapporrta · rapportta · rappotra · rapprota

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rapporta" for "rapportée" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rapporta" is a verb and "rapportée" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "rapporta" vs "rapportée" - which ranks higher?
"rapportée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,034 in our French list, against #44,129 for "rapporta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "rapporta" and "rapportée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rapporta" 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 #88,532 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rapporta" and "rapportée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rapporta vs remporta". 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 #88,532 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