Which to use
“appelées” and “appeler” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #11,524
- “appelées” frequency rank
- #1,467
- “appeler” frequency rank
- 12991
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appelées | appeler |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe appeler. | Désigner quelqu’un par son nom ; pourvoir quelqu’un d’un nom. |
Same sound, different letters: appelées vs appeler
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appelées runs 8 letters (VCCVCVVC) against appeler's 7 (VCCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - appelées and appeler
This is the hard kind. appelées and appeler are pronounced identically (\a.pə.le\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12991, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appelées is recorded at frequency rank #11,524, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pə.le\. appeler is at rank #1,467, 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 12991, this pair ranks #402,880 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appelées vs appeler
Shared letters: aelp. Private to "appelées": sé. Private to "appeler": r.
"appelées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC · "appeler" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appeler ← apeler · apepler · appeelr · appelerr · appelre · appleer · papeler
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "appelées" and "appeler" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "appelées" or "appeler" show up more?
After this comparison
"appelées" and "appeler" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appelées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appeler" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #402,880 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appelées" and "appeler" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appelées vs appuyées". 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 #402,880 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.