Which to use
“appuyée” is an adjective and “appuyez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #17,620
- “appuyée” frequency rank
- #20,045
- “appuyez” frequency rank
- 37665
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyée | appuyez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin singulier de appuyé. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyée vs appuyez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appuyée (VCCVVVV) and appuyez (VCCVVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Homophone desk: appuyée vs appuyez
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: appuyée and appuyez 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37665, 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\. appuyez is at rank #20,045, 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 37665, this pair ranks #260,845 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuyée vs appuyez
Shared letters: aepuy. Private to "appuyée": é. Private to "appuyez": z.
"appuyée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVV · "appuyez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appuyez ← appueyz · appuyezz · appuyyez · appuyze · appyuez · apupyez · apuyez · papuyez
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuyée" and "appuyez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "appuyée" or "appuyez"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "appuyée" / "appuyez". 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 "appuyez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #260,845 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyée" and "appuyez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuya vs appuyez". 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 #260,845 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.