Which to use
“appliquées” is an adjective and “appliquer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #9,957
- “appliquées” frequency rank
- #2,702
- “appliquer” frequency rank
- 12659
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appliquées | appliquer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de appliqué. | Mettre une chose sur une autre, soit pour qu’elle y demeure adhérente, soit pour qu’elle y laisse une empreinte, soit simplement pour qu’elle y touche. |
Same sound, different letters: appliquées vs appliquer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. appliquées runs 10 letters (VCCCVCVVVC) against appliquer's 9 (VCCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - appliquées / appliquer
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: appliquées and appliquer 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12659, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appliquées is recorded at frequency rank #9,957, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.pli.ke\. appliquer is at rank #2,702, 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 12659, this pair ranks #404,348 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appliquées vs appliquer
Shared letters: aeilpqu. Private to "appliquées": sé. Private to "appliquer": r.
"appliquées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVVVC · "appliquer" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appliquer ← apliquer · aplpiquer · appilquer · appliqeur · appliqquer · appliquerr · appliqure · appliuqer
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appliquées" for "appliquer" ever safe?
Which is more common, "appliquées" or "appliquer"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "appliquées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appliquer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #404,348 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appliquées" and "appliquer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appliquées vs appliquons". 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 #404,348 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.