Which to use
“reportée” and “reporter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #21,442
- “reportée” frequency rank
- #6,745
- “reporter” frequency rank
- 28187
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | reportée | reporter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de reporter. | Rapporter une chose au lieu où elle était auparavant. |
Same sound, different letters: reportée vs reporter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Homophone desk: reportée vs reporter
This is the hard kind. reportée and reporter are pronounced identically (\ʁə.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 28187, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
reportée is recorded at frequency rank #21,442, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.pɔʁ.te\. reporter is at rank #6,745, 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 28187, this pair ranks #324,381 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of reportée vs reporter
Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "reportée": é. Private to "reporter": -.
"reportée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV · "reporter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- reporter ← erporter · reoprter · reporetr · reporrter · reporterr · reportre · reportter · repotrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "reportée" and "reporter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "reportée" or "reporter"?
After this comparison
"reportée" and "reporter" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "reportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "reporter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #324,381 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "reportée" and "reporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "récoltée vs reportée". 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 #324,381 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.