réformévsreportéWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#23,357
“réformé” frequency rank
#15,484
“reporté” frequency rank
38841
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature réformé reporté
Definition Qui n’est plus utilisé Participe passé masculin singulier de reporter.

Letter map: réformé vs reporté

Shared letters muted; letters that set réformé and reporté apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

7 ch
réformé
7 ch
reporté

Part-of-speech tell for réformé / reporté

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: réformé is anadjective and reportéaverb. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 38841, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

réformé is recorded at frequency rank #23,357, classified as anadj. reporté is at rank #15,484, 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 38841, this pair ranks #252,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of réformé vs reporté

Shared letters: oré. Private to "réformé": fm. Private to "reporté": ept.

"réformé" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV  ·  "reporté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "réformé" and "reporté" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "réformé" is an adjective and "reporté" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "réformé" or "reporté" show up more?
"reporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,484 in our French list, against #23,357 for "réformé". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "réformé" and "reporté". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "réformé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reporté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #252,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "réformé" and "reporté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réformé vs réformées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #252,419 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