Which to use
“appuyé” and “appuyée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,959
- “appuyé” frequency rank
- #17,620
- “appuyée” frequency rank
- 26579
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyé | appuyée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui pèse sur. | Féminin singulier de appuyé. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyé vs appuyée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appuyé runs 6 letters (VCCVVV) against appuyée's 7 (VCCVVVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - appuyé / appuyée
This is the hard kind. appuyé and appuyée are pronounced identically (\a.pɥi.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) - “appuyé” sits inside “appuyée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 26579, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuyé is recorded at frequency rank #8,959, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.pɥi.je\. appuyée is at rank #17,620, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.pɥi.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 26579, this pair ranks #334,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appuyé vs appuyée
Shared letters: apuyé. Private to "appuyé": -. Private to "appuyée": e.
"appuyé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV · "appuyée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuyé" and "appuyée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "appuyé" vs "appuyée" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #334,129 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyé" and "appuyée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuya vs appuyée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #334,129 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.