Which to use
“appelais” and “appelées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #29,637
- “appelais” frequency rank
- #11,524
- “appelées” frequency rank
- 41161
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appelais | appelées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler. | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe appeler. |
Where the eye mixes appelais and appelées
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. appelais and appelées follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: appelais vs appelées
A purely visual mix-up. appelais (\a.pə.lɛ\) and appelées (\a.pə.le\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41161, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appelais is recorded at frequency rank #29,637, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pə.lɛ\. appelées is at rank #11,524, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.pə.le\.
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 41161, this pair ranks #235,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appelais vs appelées
Shared letters: aelps. Private to "appelais": i. Private to "appelées": é.
"appelais" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC · "appelées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appelais ← apelais · apeplais · appealis · appelaiss · appelasi · appelias · appellais · appleais
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "appelais" and "appelées" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "appelais" vs "appelées" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "appelais" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appelées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #235,164 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appelais" and "appelées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appelais vs apprêtais". 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 #235,164 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.