remportavsremportéeWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#35,246
“remporta” frequency rank
#19,132
“remportée” frequency rank
54378
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remporta remportée
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de remporter. Participe passé féminin singulier de remporter.

Where the eye mixes remporta and remportée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence.

8 ch
remporta
9 ch
remportée

Why the eye confuses remporta with remportée

A purely visual mix-up. remporta (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\) and remportée (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\) 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 54378, 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\. remportée is at rank #19,132, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.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 54378, this pair ranks #134,458 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remporta vs remportée

Shared letters: emoprt. Private to "remporta": a. Private to "remportée": é.

"remporta" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "remportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remportaermporta · remmporta · remoprta · remporat · remporrta · remportta · rempotra · rempporta

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remporta" for "remportée" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\ versus \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
In ordinary French text, does "remporta" or "remportée" show up more?
"remportée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #19,132 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.

Useful next steps

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 "remportée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #134,458 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remporta" and "remportée" 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 #134,458 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