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“rapportées” and “rapporteurs” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#22,998
“rapportées” frequency rank
#35,669
“rapporteurs” frequency rank
58667
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rapportées rapporteurs
Definition Féminin pluriel de rapporté. Masculin pluriel de rapporteur.

Where the eye mixes rapportées and rapporteurs

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 9 letters in sequence. rapportées runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against rapporteurs's 11 (CVCCVCCVVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
rapportées
11 ch
rapporteurs

Look-alike desk: rapportées vs rapporteurs

A purely visual mix-up. rapportées (\ʁa.pɔʁ.te\) and rapporteurs (\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 58667, 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\. rapporteurs is at rank #35,669, 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 58667, this pair ranks #107,662 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rapportées vs rapporteurs

Shared letters: aeoprst. Private to "rapportées": é. Private to "rapporteurs": u.

"rapportées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "rapporteurs" · 11 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • rapporteursarpporteurs · rapoprteurs · raporteurs · rapporeturs · rapporrteurs · rapporterus · rapporteurrs · rapporteurss

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "rapportées" for "rapporteurs" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁa.pɔʁ.te\ versus \ʁa.pɔʁ.tœʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "rapportées" vs "rapporteurs" - which ranks higher?
"rapportées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,998 in our French list, against #35,669 for "rapporteurs". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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 "rapporteurs" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #107,662 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rapportées" and "rapporteurs" 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 #107,662 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