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Which to use

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

#35,246
“remporta” frequency rank
#33,866
“remportés” frequency rank
69112
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remporta remportés
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de remporter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remporter.

Where the eye mixes remporta and remportés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. remporta runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against remportés's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
remporta
9 ch
remportés

Visual trap between remporta and remportés

A purely visual mix-up. remporta (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\) and remportés (\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 69112, 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\. remportés is at rank #33,866, 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 69112, this pair ranks #56,424 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remporta vs remportés

Shared letters: emoprt. Private to "remporta": a. Private to "remportés": .

"remporta" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "remportés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remporta" for "remportés" 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.
Which is more common, "remporta" or "remportés"?
"remportés" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,866 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

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remporta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remportés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #56,424 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remporta" and "remportés" 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 #56,424 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