transportéevstransportentTell them apart

Quick tell: transportée is a noun, transportent is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“transportée” is a noun and “transportent” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#20,591
“transportée” frequency rank
#23,715
“transportent” frequency rank
44306
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature transportée transportent
Definition Celle à qui a été appliquée la peine de la transportation. Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de transporter.

Where the eye mixes transportée and transportent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. transportée runs 11 letters (CCVCCCVCCVV) against transportent's 12 (CCVCCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
transportée
12 ch
transportent

Visual trap between transportée and transportent

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: transportée is \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.te\ while transportent is \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁt\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44306, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

transportée is recorded at frequency rank #20,591, classified as anoun, pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ.te\. transportent is at rank #23,715, tagged as averb, pronounced \tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁt\.

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 44306, this pair ranks #211,462 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of transportée vs transportent

Shared letters: aenoprst. Private to "transportée": é. Private to "transportent": -.

"transportée" · 11 letters · shape CCVCCCVCCVV  ·  "transportent" · 12 letters · shape CCVCCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • transportent ← rtansportent · tarnsportent · trannsportent · tranpsortent · transoprtent · transporetnt · transporrtent · transportennt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "transportée" and "transportent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "transportée" is a noun and "transportent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "transportée" or "transportent"?
"transportée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #20,591 in our French list, against #23,715 for "transportent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "transportée" and "transportent" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "transportée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "transportent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #211,462 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "transportée" and "transportent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "transportaient vs transportent". 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 #211,462 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