rapportevsrapportéesWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#3,100
“rapporte” frequency rank
#22,998
“rapportées” frequency rank
26098
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rapporte rapportées
Definition Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de rapporter. Féminin pluriel de rapporté.

Where the eye mixes rapporte and rapportées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. rapporte runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against rapportées's 10 (CVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
rapporte
10 ch
rapportées

Why the eye confuses rapporte with rapportées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rapporte is \ʁa.pɔʁt\ while rapportées is \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 2 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 26098, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rapporte is recorded at frequency rank #3,100, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁt\. rapportées is at rank #22,998, 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 26098, this pair ranks #337,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of rapporte vs rapportées

Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "rapporte": -. Private to "rapportées": .

"rapporte" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "rapportées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rapportearpporte · rapoprte · raporte · rapporet · rapporrte · rapportte · rappotre · rapprote

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rapporte" and "rapportées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rapporte" is a verb and "rapportées" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "rapporte" or "rapportées" show up more?
"rapporte" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,100 in our French list, against #22,998 for "rapportées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rapporte" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rapportées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #337,125 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rapporte" and "rapportées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rapportées vs reportées". 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 #337,125 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