remportéevsremporterConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#19,132
“remportée” frequency rank
#4,442
“remporter” frequency rank
23574
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remportée remporter
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de remporter. Reprendre et rapporter de quelque lieu ce qu’on y avait apporté.

Same sound, different letters: remportée vs remporter

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. remportée (CVCCVCCVV) and remporter (CVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

9 ch
remportée
9 ch
remporter

Ear matches; page differs - remportée and remporter

This is the hard kind. remportée and remporter are pronounced identically (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 23574, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remportée is recorded at frequency rank #19,132, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. remporter is at rank #4,442, 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 23574, this pair ranks #351,707 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remportée vs remporter

Shared letters: emoprt. Private to "remportée": é. Private to "remporter": -.

"remportée" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVV  ·  "remporter" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remporterermporter · remmporter · remoprter · remporetr · remporrter · remporterr · remportre · remportter

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "remportée" and "remporter" be used interchangeably?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "remportée" vs "remporter" - which ranks higher?
"remporter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,442 in our French list, against #19,132 for "remportée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "remportée" / "remporter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #351,707 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remportée" and "remporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remportée vs reportées". 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 #351,707 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