rapportéesvsrapportentWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#22,998
“rapportées” frequency rank
#10,218
“rapportent” frequency rank
33216
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rapportées rapportent
Definition Féminin pluriel de rapporté. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rapporter.

Where the eye mixes rapportées and rapportent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. rapportées (CVCCVCCVVC) and rapportent (CVCCVCCVCC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

10 ch
rapportées
10 ch
rapportent

Visual trap between rapportées and rapportent

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rapportées is \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\ while rapportent is \ʁa.pɔʁt\. 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 33216, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

rapportées is recorded at frequency rank #22,998, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\. rapportent is at rank #10,218, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁa.pɔʁt\.

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 33216, this pair ranks #292,107 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of rapportées vs rapportent

Shared letters: aeoprt. Private to "rapportées": . Private to "rapportent": n.

"rapportées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "rapportent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rapportentarpportent · rapoprtent · raportent · rapporetnt · rapporrtent · rapportennt · rapportentt · rapportetn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rapportées" for "rapportent" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rapportées" is an adjective and "rapportent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "rapportées" or "rapportent"?
"rapportent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,218 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.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "rapportées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "rapportent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #292,107 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rapportées" and "rapportent" 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 #292,107 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