Which to use
“appuyée” and “appuyés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #17,620
- “appuyée” frequency rank
- #18,116
- “appuyés” frequency rank
- 35736
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyée | appuyés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de appuyé. | Masculin pluriel de appuyé. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyée vs appuyés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appuyée (VCCVVVV) and appuyés (VCCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - appuyée and appuyés
This is the hard kind. appuyée and appuyés 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 a single letter - e in “appuyée” becomes s in “appuyés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 35736, 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\. appuyés is at rank #18,116, 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 35736, this pair ranks #274,603 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuyée vs appuyés
Shared letters: apuyé. Private to "appuyée": e. Private to "appuyés": s.
"appuyée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV · "appuyés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appuyée" for "appuyés" ever safe?
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After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "appuyée" / "appuyés". 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 "appuyés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #274,603 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyée" and "appuyés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuya vs appuyés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #274,603 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.