Which to use
“rapportée” and “rapporteur” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #18,034
- “rapportée” frequency rank
- #10,775
- “rapporteur” frequency rank
- 28809
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | rapportée | rapporteur |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de rapporté. | Qui rapporte, dénonce. |
Where the eye mixes rapportée and rapporteur
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. rapportée runs 9 letters (CVCCVCCVV) against rapporteur's 10 (CVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Why the eye confuses rapportée with rapporteur
A purely visual mix-up. rapportée (\ʁa.pɔʁ.te\) and rapporteur (\ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28809, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
rapportée is recorded at frequency rank #18,034, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\. rapporteur is at rank #10,775, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\.
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 28809, this pair ranks #320,569 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of rapportée vs rapporteur
Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "rapportée": é. Private to "rapporteur": u.
"rapportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV · "rapporteur" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- rapporteur ← arpporteur · rapoprteur · raporteur · rapporetur · rapporrteur · rapporteru · rapporteurr · rapportteur
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "rapportée" for "rapporteur" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "rapportée" or "rapporteur" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "rapportée" and "rapporteur" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "rapportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "rapporteur" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #320,569 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "rapportée" and "rapporteur" 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 #320,569 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.