réputéesvsReutersWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: réputées is a adjective, Reuters is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“réputées” is an adjective and “Reuters” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#22,692
“réputées” frequency rank
#15,022
“Reuters” frequency rank
37714
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature réputées Reuters
Definition Féminin pluriel de réputé. Agence de presse internationale basée à Londres.

Letter map: réputées vs Reuters

Shared letters muted; letters that set réputées and Reuters apart highlighted. Shared run: 5. réputées runs 8 letters (CVCVCVVC) against Reuters's 7 (CVVCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
réputées
7 ch
Reuters

Part-of-speech tell for réputées / Reuters

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: réputées is anadjective and Reutersaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37714, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

réputées is recorded at frequency rank #22,692, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁe.py.te\. Reuters is at rank #15,022, tagged as aname.

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 37714, this pair ranks #260,480 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of réputées vs Reuters

Shared letters: erstu. Private to "réputées": . Private to "Reuters": -.

"réputées" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVVC  ·  "Reuters" · 7 letters · shape CVVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Reuterseruters · retuers · reuetrs · reuterrs · reuterss · reutesr · reutres · reutters

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "réputées" and "Reuters" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "réputées" is an adjective and "Reuters" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "réputées" or "Reuters" show up more?
"Reuters" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #15,022 in our French list, against #22,692 for "réputées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "réputées" and "Reuters".

  • Full dictionary entry for "réputées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Reuters" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #260,480 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "réputées" and "Reuters" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repérées vs réputées". 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 #260,480 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