Which to use
“appliquer” and “appliquez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #2,702
- “appliquer” frequency rank
- #37,657
- “appliquez” frequency rank
- 40359
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appliquer | appliquez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | 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. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appliquer. |
Same sound, different letters: appliquer vs appliquez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. appliquer and appliquez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCCVCVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Same sound, different spelling - appliquer / appliquez
This is the hard kind. appliquer and appliquez are pronounced identically (\a.pli.ke\) 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 a single letter - r in “appliquer” becomes z in “appliquez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40359, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appliquer is recorded at frequency rank #2,702, classified as averb, 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 40359, this pair ranks #241,115 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appliquer vs appliquez
Shared letters: aeilpqu. Private to "appliquer": r. Private to "appliquez": z.
"appliquer" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC · "appliquez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appliquer" for "appliquez" ever safe?
Which is more common, "appliquer" or "appliquez"?
What to do next
"appliquer" and "appliquez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appliquer" 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 #241,115 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appliquer" 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 #241,115 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.