Which to use
“appuie” and “appuies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,400
- “appuie” frequency rank
- #34,868
- “appuies” frequency rank
- 39268
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuie | appuies |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. |
Same sound, different letters: appuie vs appuies
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - appuie / appuies
This is the hard kind. appuie and appuies are pronounced identically (\a.pɥi\) 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 1 extra letter(s) - “appuie” sits inside “appuies”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 39268, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuie is recorded at frequency rank #4,400, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pɥi\. appuies is at rank #34,868, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.pɥi\.
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 39268, this pair ranks #249,256 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuie vs appuies
Shared letters: aeipu. Private to "appuie": -. Private to "appuies": s.
"appuie" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV · "appuies" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appuie" for "appuies" ever safe?
Frequency check: "appuie" vs "appuies" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"appuie" and "appuies" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appuies" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #249,256 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuie" and "appuies" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuiera 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 #249,256 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.