Which to use
“apposée” and “apposer” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #41,124
- “apposée” frequency rank
- #29,639
- “apposer” frequency rank
- 70763
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | apposée | apposer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe apposer. | Poser, appliquer sur quelque chose. |
Same sound, different letters: apposée vs apposer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - apposée and apposer
This is the hard kind. apposée and apposer are pronounced identically (\a.po.ze\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70763, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
apposée is recorded at frequency rank #41,124, classified as averb, pronounced \a.po.ze\. apposer is at rank #29,639, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.po.ze\.
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 70763, this pair ranks #50,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of apposée vs apposer
Shared letters: aeops. Private to "apposée": é. Private to "apposer": r.
"apposée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV · "apposer" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- apposer ← apopser · aposer · appoesr · apposerr · apposre · apposser · appsoer · paposer
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "apposée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "apposer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #50,117 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "apposée" and "apposer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apposée vs arrosée". 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 #50,117 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.