remportentvsremportésTell them apart

Which to use

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

#23,670
“remportent” frequency rank
#33,866
“remportés” frequency rank
57536
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remportent remportés
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de remporter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de remporter.

Where the eye mixes remportent and remportés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. remportent runs 10 letters (CVCCVCCVCC) against remportés's 9 (CVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
remportent
9 ch
remportés

Why the eye confuses remportent with remportés

A purely visual mix-up. remportent (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁt\) and remportés (\ʁɑ̃.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 57536, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remportent is recorded at frequency rank #23,670, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁt\. remportés is at rank #33,866, 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 57536, this pair ranks #114,454 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remportent vs remportés

Shared letters: emoprt. Private to "remportent": n. Private to "remportés": .

"remportent" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCCVCC  ·  "remportés" · 9 letters · shape CVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remportentermportent · remmportent · remoprtent · remporetnt · remporrtent · remportennt · remportentt · remportetn

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "remportent" for "remportés" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ʁɑ̃.pɔʁt\ versus \ʁɑ̃.pɔʁ.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Frequency check: "remportent" vs "remportés" - which ranks higher?
"remportent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #23,670 in our French list, against #33,866 for "remportés". 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 "remportent" and "remportés" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remportent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remportés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #114,454 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remportent" and "remportés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remportés 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 #114,454 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