reportvsreportéTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#7,109
“report” frequency rank
#15,484
“reporté” frequency rank
22593
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature report reporté
Definition Action de reporter une somme, un total. Participe passé masculin singulier de reporter.

Where the eye mixes report and reporté

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

6 ch
report
7 ch
reporté

Why the eye confuses report with reporté

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: report is \ʁə.pɔʁ\ while reporté is \ʁə.pɔʁ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “report” sits inside “reporté”, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22593, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

report is recorded at frequency rank #7,109, classified as anoun, pronounced \ʁə.pɔʁ\. reporté is at rank #15,484, 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 22593, this pair ranks #357,148 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of report vs reporté

Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "report": -. Private to "reporté": é.

"report" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "reporté" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reporterport · reoprt · reporrt · reportt · repotr · repport · reprot · rpeort

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "report" for "reporté" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "report" is a noun and "reporté" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "report" or "reporté"?
"report" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,109 in our French list, against #15,484 for "reporté". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "report" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "reporté" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #357,148 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "report" and "reporté" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reparlé vs reporté". 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 #357,148 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