remportéesvsreportersWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: remportées is a verb, reporters is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“remportées” is a verb and “reporters” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#39,011
“remportées” frequency rank
#22,398
“reporters” frequency rank
61409
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remportées reporters
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel de remporter. Pluriel de reporter.

Where the eye mixes remportées and reporters

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. remportées runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVVC) against reporters's 9 (CVCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
remportées
9 ch
reporters

Visual trap between remportées and reporters

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remportées is \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\ while reporters is \ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 61409, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remportées is recorded at frequency rank #39,011, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\. reporters is at rank #22,398, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.pɔʁ.tɛʁ\.

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 61409, this pair ranks #92,461 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of remportées vs reporters

Shared letters: eoprst. Private to "remportées": . Private to "reporters": -.

"remportées" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVVC  ·  "reporters" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reporterserporters · reoprters · reporetrs · reporrters · reporterrs · reporterss · reportesr · reportres

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remportées" for "reporters" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remportées" is a verb and "reporters" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "remportées" or "reporters" show up more?
"reporters" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #22,398 in our French list, against #39,011 for "remportées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "remportées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reporters" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #92,461 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remportées" and "reporters" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remportées 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 #92,461 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