Which to use
“appuyé” and “appuyées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,959
- “appuyé” frequency rank
- #34,416
- “appuyées” frequency rank
- 43375
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyé | appuyées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui pèse sur. | Féminin pluriel de appuyé. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyé vs appuyées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appuyé runs 6 letters (VCCVVV) against appuyées's 8 (VCCVVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - appuyé / appuyées
This is the hard kind. appuyé and appuyées 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 2 extra letter(s) - “appuyé” sits inside “appuyées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 43375, 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\. appuyées is at rank #34,416, 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 43375, this pair ranks #218,524 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuyé vs appuyées
Shared letters: apuyé. Private to "appuyé": -. Private to "appuyées": es.
"appuyé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV · "appuyées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuyé" and "appuyées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "appuyé" or "appuyées"?
After this comparison
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 "appuyées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #218,524 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyé" and "appuyées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuies vs appuyées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #218,524 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.