Which to use
“approprié” and “appropriés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #7,522
- “approprié” frequency rank
- #17,619
- “appropriés” frequency rank
- 25141
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | approprié | appropriés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui convient. | Masculin pluriel de approprié. |
Same sound, different letters: approprié vs appropriés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. approprié runs 9 letters (VCCCVCCVV) against appropriés's 10 (VCCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: approprié vs appropriés
This is the hard kind. approprié and appropriés 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 1 extra letter(s) - “approprié” sits inside “appropriés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25141, 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\. appropriés is at rank #17,619, 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 25141, this pair ranks #342,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of approprié vs appropriés
Shared letters: aiopré. Private to "approprié": -. Private to "appropriés": s.
"approprié" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV · "appropriés" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "approprié" for "appropriés" ever safe?
Frequency check: "approprié" vs "appropriés" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "approprié" / "appropriés". 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 "appropriés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #342,566 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "approprié" and "appropriés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "approprient vs appropriés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #342,566 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.