remportavsremportantConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#35,246
“remporta” frequency rank
#18,302
“remportant” frequency rank
53548
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remporta remportant
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de remporter. Participe présent de remporter.

Where the eye mixes remporta and remportant

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

8 ch
remporta
10 ch
remportant

Why the eye confuses remporta with remportant

A purely visual mix-up. remporta (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\) and remportant (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “remporta” sits inside “remportant”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53548, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remporta is recorded at frequency rank #35,246, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\. remportant is at rank #18,302, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\.

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 53548, this pair ranks #139,985 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remporta vs remportant

Shared letters: aemoprt. Private to "remporta": -. Private to "remportant": n.

"remporta" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "remportant" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remportaermporta · remmporta · remoprta · remporat · remporrta · remportta · rempotra · rempporta
  • remportantermportant · remmportant · remoprtant · remporatnt · remporrtant · remportannt · remportantt · remportatn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remporta" for "remportant" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\ versus \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "remporta" vs "remportant" - which ranks higher?
"remportant" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #18,302 in our French list, against #35,246 for "remporta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remporta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remportant" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #139,985 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remporta" and "remportant" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remporta vs remportait". 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 #139,985 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