Which to use
“approprié” and “appropriées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,522
- “approprié” frequency rank
- #18,651
- “appropriées” frequency rank
- 26173
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | approprié | appropriées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui convient. | Féminin pluriel de approprié. |
Same sound, different letters: approprié vs appropriées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.
Homophone desk: approprié vs appropriées
This is the hard kind. approprié and appropriées are pronounced identically (\a.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\) 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 2 extra letter(s) - “approprié” sits inside “appropriées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26173, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
approprié is recorded at frequency rank #7,522, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\. appropriées is at rank #18,651, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\.
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 26173, this pair ranks #336,702 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of approprié vs appropriées
Shared letters: aiopré. Private to "approprié": -. Private to "appropriées": es.
"approprié" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV · "appropriées" · 11 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "approprié" for "appropriées" ever safe?
Frequency check: "approprié" vs "appropriées" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "approprié" / "appropriées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "approprié" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appropriées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #336,702 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "approprié" and "appropriées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appropriées vs approprient". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #336,702 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.