Which to use
“appliquée” is an adjective and “appliquez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #6,462
- “appliquée” frequency rank
- #37,657
- “appliquez” frequency rank
- 44119
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appliquée | appliquez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de appliqué. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: appliquée vs appliquez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. appliquée (VCCCVCVVV) and appliquez (VCCCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - appliquée and appliquez
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: appliquée and appliquez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.pli.ke\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44119, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appliquée is recorded at frequency rank #6,462, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.pli.ke\. appliquez is at rank #37,657, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.pli.ke\.
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 44119, this pair ranks #212,922 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appliquée vs appliquez
Shared letters: aeilpqu. Private to "appliquée": é. Private to "appliquez": z.
"appliquée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVV · "appliquez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appliquez ← apliquez · aplpiquez · appilquez · appliqeuz · appliqquez · appliquezz · appliquze · appliuqez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appliquée" and "appliquez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "appliquée" or "appliquez"?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "appliquée" / "appliquez". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "appliquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appliquez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #212,922 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appliquée" and "appliquez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appliques vs appliquez". 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 #212,922 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.