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appuyer/appuyez/appuyé/appuyée/appuyées/appuyés

"appuyer" (#4,546 written frequency) beats "appuyez" (#20,045) in this 6-word /\a.pɥi.je\/ cluster. Size rank #20 of 9,139 French groups.

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Frequency splits the cluster

These 6 spellings keep the same /\a.pɥi.je\/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "appuyer" leads at #4,546, with "appuyez" trailing at #20,045.

Spelling pairs in this cluster

  • Single-letter fork: "appuyer" keeps r, "appuyez" writes z at letter 7.
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyer" (7 letters) vs "appuyé" (6).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyer" (7 letters) vs "appuyée" (7).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyer" (7 letters) vs "appuyées" (8).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyer" (7 letters) vs "appuyés" (7).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyez" (7 letters) vs "appuyé" (6).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyez" (7 letters) vs "appuyée" (7).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyez" (7 letters) vs "appuyées" (8).
  • Shared stem "appuy" then splits - "appuyez" (7 letters) vs "appuyés" (7).
  • Shared stem "appuyé" then splits - "appuyé" (6 letters) vs "appuyée" (7).
  • Shared stem "appuyé" then splits - "appuyé" (6 letters) vs "appuyées" (8).
  • Shared stem "appuyé" then splits - "appuyé" (6 letters) vs "appuyés" (7).
  • Shared stem "appuyée" then splits - "appuyée" (7 letters) vs "appuyées" (8).
  • Single-letter fork: "appuyée" keeps e, "appuyés" writes s at letter 7.
  • Shared stem "appuyé" then splits - "appuyées" (8 letters) vs "appuyés" (7).

Orthographic DNA of this cluster

Shared letters across appuyer, appuyez, appuyé, appuyée, appuyées, appuyés: apuy. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.

  • appuyer

    7 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCVVVC

    Inventory aepruy · private er

  • appuyez

    7 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCVVVC

    Inventory aepuyz · private ez

  • appuyé

    6 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCVVV

    Inventory apuyé · private é

  • appuyée

    7 letters · 5 vowels · shape VCCVVVV

    Inventory aepuyé · private eé

  • appuyées

    8 letters · 5 vowels · shape VCCVVVVC

    Inventory aepsuyé · private esé

  • appuyés

    7 letters · 4 vowels · shape VCCVVVC

    Inventory apsuyé · private sé

Pick the spelling from the meaning

  • Write "appuyer" when you mean: Placer contre quelque chose.
  • Write "appuyez" when you mean: Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer.
  • Write "appuyé" when you mean: Qui pèse sur.
  • Write "appuyée" when you mean: Féminin singulier de appuyé.
  • Write "appuyées" when you mean: Féminin pluriel de appuyé.
  • Write "appuyés" when you mean: Masculin pluriel de appuyé.

Known mistypes of these spellings

Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.

  • appuyer ← appueyr · appuyerr · appuyre · appuyyer · appyuer · apupyer
  • appuyez ← appueyz · appuyezz · appuyyez · appuyze · appyuez · apupyez

Each spelling

appuyer

verb · /\a.pɥi.je\/ · #4,546 frequency

Placer contre quelque chose.

appuyez

verb · /\a.pɥi.je\/ · #20,045 frequency

Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer.

appuyé

/\a.pɥi.je\/

Qui pèse sur.

appuyée

/\a.pɥi.je\/

Féminin singulier de appuyé.

appuyées

/\a.pɥi.je\/

Féminin pluriel de appuyé.

appuyés

/\a.pɥi.je\/

Masculin pluriel de appuyé.

Nearby French homophone groups

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

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