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

#35,246
“remporta” frequency rank
#15,484
“reporté” frequency rank
50730
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remporta reporté
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de remporter. Participe passé masculin singulier de reporter.

Where the eye mixes remporta and reporté

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. remporta runs 8 letters (CVCCVCCV) against reporté's 7 (CVCVCCV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
remporta
7 ch
reporté

Visual trap between remporta and reporté

A purely visual mix-up. remporta (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\) and reporté (\ʁə.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 50730, 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\. 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 50730, this pair ranks #160,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remporta vs reporté

Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "remporta": am. Private to "reporté": é.

"remporta" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "reporté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remporta ← ermporta · remmporta · remoprta · remporat · remporrta · remportta · rempotra · rempporta

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remporta" and "reporté" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.ta\ versus \ʁə.pɔʁ.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "remporta" 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 #35,246 for "remporta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Eye-level mix-up between "remporta" and "reporté" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remporta" 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 #160,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remporta" and "reporté" 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 #160,420 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