Which to use
“reportées” and “reporter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #43,636
- “reportées” frequency rank
- #6,745
- “reporter” frequency rank
- 50381
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | reportées | reporter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel de reporter. | Rapporter une chose au lieu où elle était auparavant. |
Same sound, different letters: reportées vs reporter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. reportées runs 9 letters (CVCVCCVVC) against reporter's 8 (CVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - reportées and reporter
This is the hard kind. reportées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50381, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
reportées is recorded at frequency rank #43,636, 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 50381, this pair ranks #163,084 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of reportées vs reporter
Shared letters: eoprt. Private to "reportées": sé. Private to "reporter": -.
"reportées" · 9 letters · shape CVCVCCVVC · "reporter" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- reporter ← erporter · reoprter · reporetr · reporrter · reporterr · reportre · reportter · repotrer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "reportées" and "reporter" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "reportées" or "reporter" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "reportées" / "reporter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "reportées" 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 #163,084 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "reportées" and "reporter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "réformées 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 #163,084 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.