Which to use
“apprise” and “apprises” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,962
- “apprise” frequency rank
- #35,810
- “apprises” frequency rank
- 62772
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | apprise | apprises |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de appris. | Féminin pluriel de appris. |
Same sound, different letters: apprise vs apprises
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - apprise / apprises
This is the hard kind. apprise and apprises are pronounced identically (\a.pʁiz\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “apprise” sits inside “apprises”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62772, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
apprise is recorded at frequency rank #26,962, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.pʁiz\. apprises is at rank #35,810, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.pʁiz\.
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 62772, this pair ranks #85,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of apprise vs apprises
Shared letters: aeiprs. Private to "apprise": -. Private to "apprises": -.
"apprise" · 7 letters · shape VCCCVCV · "apprises" · 8 letters · shape VCCCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "apprise" and "apprises" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "apprise" or "apprises"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "apprise" / "apprises". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "apprise" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "apprises" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #85,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "apprise" and "apprises" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "apprises vs appuies". 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 #85,380 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.