Which to use
“appuyées” and “appuyés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #34,416
- “appuyées” frequency rank
- #18,116
- “appuyés” frequency rank
- 52532
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyées | appuyés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Féminin pluriel de appuyé. | Masculin pluriel de appuyé. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyées vs appuyés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. appuyées runs 8 letters (VCCVVVVC) against appuyés's 7 (VCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - appuyées and appuyés
This is the hard kind. appuyées 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 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 52532, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuyées is recorded at frequency rank #34,416, 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 52532, this pair ranks #147,087 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuyées vs appuyés
Shared letters: apsuyé. Private to "appuyées": e. Private to "appuyés": -.
"appuyées" · 8 letters · shape VCCVVVVC · "appuyés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appuyées" and "appuyés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "appuyées" or "appuyés" show up more?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyées" 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 #147,087 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyées" and "appuyés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appuies vs appuyées". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #147,087 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.