Which to use
“appuyée” and “appuyées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,620
- “appuyée” frequency rank
- #34,416
- “appuyées” frequency rank
- 52036
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyée | appuyées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de appuyé. | Féminin pluriel de appuyé. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyée vs appuyées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. appuyée runs 7 letters (VCCVVVV) against appuyées's 8 (VCCVVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: appuyée vs appuyées
This is the hard kind. appuyée 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 1 extra letter(s) - “appuyée” sits inside “appuyées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52036, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuyée is recorded at frequency rank #17,620, 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 52036, this pair ranks #150,640 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuyée vs appuyées
Shared letters: aepuyé. Private to "appuyée": -. Private to "appuyées": s.
"appuyée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV · "appuyées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuyée" and "appuyées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "appuyée" or "appuyées" show up more?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "appuyée" / "appuyées". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyée" 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 #150,640 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyée" and "appuyées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuies vs appuyées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #150,640 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.