reportéevsreportésWhat's the difference?

Which to use

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

#21,442
“reportée” frequency rank
#35,250
“reportés” frequency rank
56692
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature reportée reportés
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de reporter. Participe passé masculin pluriel de reporter.

Same sound, different letters: reportée vs reportés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. reportée (CVCVCCVV) and reportés (CVCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
reportée
8 ch
reportés

Same sound, different spelling - reportée / reportés

This is the hard kind. reportée and reportés 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 differ by a single letter - e in “reportée” becomes s in “reportés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 56692, 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\. reportés is at rank #35,250, 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 56692, this pair ranks #119,502 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of reportée vs reportés

Shared letters: eoprté. Private to "reportée": -. Private to "reportés": s.

"reportée" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVV  ·  "reportés" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "reportée" for "reportés" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.pɔʁ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "reportée" or "reportés" show up more?
"reportée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,442 in our French list, against #35,250 for "reportés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

"reportée" and "reportés" 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 "reportés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #119,502 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "reportée" and "reportés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repérées vs reportés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #119,502 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