remportévsressorteTell them apart

Which to use

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

#3,564
“remporté” frequency rank
#42,581
“ressorte” frequency rank
46145
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remporté ressorte
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de remporter. Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de ressortir.

Where the eye mixes remporté and ressorte

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. remporté and ressorte follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

8 ch
remporté
8 ch
ressorte

Visual trap between remporté and ressorte

A purely visual mix-up. remporté (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and ressorte (\ʁə.sɔʁt\) 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 3 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46145, 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\. ressorte is at rank #42,581, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.sɔʁt\.

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 46145, this pair ranks #197,254 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remporté vs ressorte

Shared letters: eort. Private to "remporté": mpé. Private to "ressorte": s.

"remporté" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV  ·  "ressorte" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • ressorteerssorte · resorte · resosrte · ressoret · ressorrte · ressortte · ressotre · ressrote

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remporté" and "ressorte" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\ versus \ʁə.sɔʁt\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "remporté" or "ressorte"?
"remporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,564 in our French list, against #42,581 for "ressorte". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remporté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "ressorte" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #197,254 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remporté" and "ressorte" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "ressente vs ressorte". 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 #197,254 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