Which to use
“appuient” and “appuies” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,197
- “appuient” frequency rank
- #34,868
- “appuies” frequency rank
- 49065
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuient | appuies |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. | Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. |
Same sound, different letters: appuient vs appuies
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appuient runs 8 letters (VCCVVVCC) against appuies's 7 (VCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - appuient / appuies
This is the hard kind. appuient 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 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49065, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuient is recorded at frequency rank #14,197, 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 49065, this pair ranks #173,761 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuient vs appuies
Shared letters: aeipu. Private to "appuient": nt. Private to "appuies": s.
"appuient" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVCC · "appuies" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuient" and "appuies" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "appuient" or "appuies" show up more?
What to do next
"appuient" and "appuies" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuient" 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 #173,761 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuient" 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 #173,761 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.