relatévsreparteTell them apart

Which to use

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

#32,559
“relaté” frequency rank
#40,463
“reparte” frequency rank
73022
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature relaté reparte
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de relater. Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de repartir.

Where the eye mixes relaté and reparte

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. relaté runs 6 letters (CVCVCV) against reparte's 7 (CVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

6 ch
relaté
7 ch
reparte

Look-alike desk: relaté vs reparte

A purely visual mix-up. relaté (\ʁə.la.te\) and reparte (\ʁə.paʁt\) 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 73022, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

relaté is recorded at frequency rank #32,559, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.la.te\. reparte is at rank #40,463, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.paʁt\.

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 73022, this pair ranks #41,923 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of relaté vs reparte

Shared letters: aert. Private to "relaté": lé. Private to "reparte": p.

"relaté" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "reparte" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reparte ← erparte · reaprte · reparet · reparrte · repartte · repatre · repparte · reprate

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "relaté" for "reparte" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁə.la.te\ versus \ʁə.paʁt\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "relaté" vs "reparte" - which ranks higher?
"relaté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #32,559 in our French list, against #40,463 for "reparte". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "relaté" and "reparte" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "relaté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reparte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #41,923 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "relaté" and "reparte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reparlé vs reparte". 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 #41,923 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