Which to use
“report” is a noun and “repost” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #7,109
- “report” frequency rank
- #39,975
- “repost” frequency rank
- 47084
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | report | repost |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action de reporter une somme, un total. | Caché. |
Letter map: report vs repost
Shared letters muted; letters that set report and repost apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. report and repost follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Part-of-speech tell for report / repost
Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: report is anoun and repostanadjective. On the page they differ by a single letter - r in “report” becomes s in “repost”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47084, 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\. repost is at rank #39,975, tagged as anadj.
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 47084, this pair ranks #189,777 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of report vs repost
Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "report": -. Private to "repost": s.
"report" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC · "repost" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
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- Full dictionary entry for "report" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "repost" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #189,777 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "report" and "repost" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reposée vs repost". 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 #189,777 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.