Which to use
“appuyé” is an adjective and “appuyer” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #8,959
- “appuyé” frequency rank
- #4,546
- “appuyer” frequency rank
- 13505
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyé | appuyer |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui pèse sur. | Placer contre quelque chose. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyé vs appuyer
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - appuyé and appuyer
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: appuyé and appuyer carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.pɥi.je\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 13505, 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\. appuyer is at rank #4,546, tagged as averb, 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 13505, this pair ranks #400,750 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appuyé vs appuyer
Shared letters: apuy. Private to "appuyé": é. Private to "appuyer": er.
"appuyé" · 6 letters · shape VCCVVV · "appuyer" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appuyer ← appueyr · appuyerr · appuyre · appuyyer · appyuer · apupyer · apuyer · papuyer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuyé" and "appuyer" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "appuyé" or "appuyer"?
After this comparison
"appuyé" and "appuyer" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyer" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #400,750 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyé" and "appuyer" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuya vs appuyé". 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 #400,750 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.