transporté vs transportées, What's the Difference?

Which to use

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

#10,091
“transporté” frequency rank: #24,415
“transportées” frequency rank: 34506
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	transporté	transportées
Definition	Déplacé avec un moyen de transport.	Féminin pluriel de transporté.

Where the spellings diverge

Shared letters are muted; the letters that actually set transporté and transportées apart are highlighted. They share 10 letters in sequence, which is exactly why the eye skips the difference.

10 ch

transporté

12 ch

transportées

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

This is the hard kind. transporté and transportées are pronounced identically (\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “transporté” sits inside “transportées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34506, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

transporté is recorded at frequency rank #10,091, classified as anadj, pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.te\. transportées is at rank #24,415, tagged as anadj, pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.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 34506, this pair ranks #283,373 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of transporté vs transportées

Shared letters: anoprsté. Private to "transporté": -. Private to "transportées": e.

"transporté" · 10 letters · shape CCVCCCVCCV · "transportées" · 12 letters · shape CCVCCCVCCVVC

Frequency comparison

transporté#10,091

transportées#24,415

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "transporté" and "transportées" be used interchangeably?

No. They are pronounced the same (\tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.

Which is more common, "transporté" or "transportées"?

"transporté" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,091 in our French list, against #24,415 for "transportées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Remembering transporté vs transportées

The fastest way to pick the right one every time.

Read both glosses above and match the meaning you intend, only context separates this pair.
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