rapportéesvsreportéesWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#22,998
“rapportées” frequency rank
#43,636
“reportées” frequency rank
66634
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature rapportées reportées
Definition Féminin pluriel de rapporté. Participe passé féminin pluriel de reporter.

Where the eye mixes rapportées and reportées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. rapportées runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against reportées's 9 (CVCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
rapportées
9 ch
reportées

Look-alike desk: rapportées vs reportées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: rapportées is \ʁa.pɔʁ.te\ while reportées is \ʁə.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 (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 66634, 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\. reportées is at rank #43,636, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.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 66634, this pair ranks #66,978 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of rapportées vs reportées

Shared letters: eoprsté. Private to "rapportées": a. Private to "reportées": -.

"rapportées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "reportées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "rapportées" and "reportées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "rapportées" is an adjective and "reportées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "rapportées" or "reportées"?
"rapportées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,998 in our French list, against #43,636 for "reportées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "rapportées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reportées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #66,978 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "rapportées" and "reportées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réformées vs reportées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #66,978 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