remportévsreporterWhich spelling fits?

Which to use

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

#3,564
“remporté” frequency rank
#6,745
“reporter” frequency rank
10309
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remporté reporter
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de remporter. Rapporter une chose au lieu où elle était auparavant.

Where the eye mixes remporté and reporter

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

8 ch
remporté
8 ch
reporter

Why the eye confuses remporté with reporter

A purely visual mix-up. remporté (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and reporter (\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 share most of their letters but differ in 6 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10309, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remporté is recorded at frequency rank #3,564, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. reporter is at rank #6,745, 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 10309, this pair ranks #413,454 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remporté vs reporter

Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "remporté": . Private to "reporter": -.

"remporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "reporter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reportererporter · reoprter · reporetr · reporrter · reporterr · reportre · reportter · repotrer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remporté" for "reporter" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\ versus \ʁə.pɔʁ.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remporté" or "reporter"?
"remporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,564 in our French list, against #6,745 for "reporter". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #413,454 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remporté" and "reporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reportées vs reporter". 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 #413,454 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