Which to use
“appris” and “apprit” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,315
- “appris” frequency rank
- #16,546
- “apprit” frequency rank
- 17861
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appris | apprit |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin (singulier ou pluriel) du verbe apprendre. | Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de apprendre. |
Same sound, different letters: appris vs apprit
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - appris / apprit
This is the hard kind. appris and apprit are pronounced identically (\a.pʁi\) 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 - s in “appris” becomes t in “apprit”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17861, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appris is recorded at frequency rank #1,315, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pʁi\. apprit is at rank #16,546, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.pʁi\.
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 17861, this pair ranks #381,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appris vs apprit
Shared letters: aipr. Private to "appris": s. Private to "apprit": t.
"appris" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC · "apprit" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appris" and "apprit" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "appris" vs "apprit" - which ranks higher?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "appris" / "apprit". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "appris" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "apprit" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #381,102 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appris" and "apprit" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apart vs apprit". 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 #381,102 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.