remotevsreportéConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#43,634
“remote” frequency rank
#15,484
“reporté” frequency rank
59118
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remote reporté
Definition Lointain, distant (au propre et au figuré). Participe passé masculin singulier de reporter.

Letter map: remote vs reporté

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

6 ch
remote
7 ch
reporté

Part-of-speech tell for remote / reporté

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: remote is anadjective and reportéaverb. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59118, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remote is recorded at frequency rank #43,634, 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 59118, this pair ranks #104,971 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remote vs reporté

Shared letters: eort. Private to "remote": m. Private to "reporté": .

"remote" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCV  ·  "reporté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remoteermote · remmote · remoet · remotte · remtoe · reomte · rmeote · rremote

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remote" and "reporté" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remote" is an adjective and "reporté" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remote" vs "reporté" - which ranks higher?
"reporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,484 in our French list, against #43,634 for "remote". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "remote" vs "reporté" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remote" 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 #104,971 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remote" and "reporté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "rejoué vs remote". 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 #104,971 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