remontéesvsreportéesConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#24,360
“remontées” frequency rank
#43,636
“reportées” frequency rank
67996
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remontées reportées
Definition Pluriel de remontée. Participe passé féminin pluriel de reporter.

Where the eye mixes remontées and reportées

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. remontées and reportées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

9 ch
remontées
9 ch
reportées

Look-alike desk: remontées vs reportées

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remontées is \ʁə.mɔ̃.te\ while reportées is \ʁə.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67996, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remontées is recorded at frequency rank #24,360, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.mɔ̃.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 67996, this pair ranks #61,039 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remontées vs reportées

Shared letters: eorsté. Private to "remontées": mn. Private to "reportées": p.

"remontées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC  ·  "reportées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remontées" and "reportées" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remontées" is a noun and "reportées" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "remontées" or "reportées" show up more?
"remontées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #24,360 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 "remontées" 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 #61,039 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remontées" and "reportées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réformées vs reportées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #61,039 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