Which to use
“appli” and “appui” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,521
- “appli” frequency rank
- #2,755
- “appui” frequency rank
- 10276
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appli | appui |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Nom générique des objets qui servent à l’attelage des animaux de trait et de labourage, et à les attacher soit ensemble, soit dans les écuries, etc. | Ce qui sert à soutenir une chose ou une personne pour l’empêcher de tomber, de chanceler, etc. |
Where the eye mixes appli and appui
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence.
Look-alike desk: appli vs appui
A purely visual mix-up. appli (\a.pli\) and appui (\a.pɥi\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - l in “appli” becomes u in “appui”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10276, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appli is recorded at frequency rank #7,521, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.pli\. appui is at rank #2,755, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.pɥi\.
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 10276, this pair ranks #413,596 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appli vs appui
Shared letters: aip. Private to "appli": l. Private to "appui": u.
"appli" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV · "appui" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appli" for "appui" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "appli" or "appui" show up more?
After this comparison
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "appli" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appui" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #413,596 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appli" and "appui" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appui vs appuya". 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 #413,596 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.