Which to use
“appuyer” and “appuyez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #4,546
- “appuyer” frequency rank
- #20,045
- “appuyez” frequency rank
- 24591
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyer | appuyez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Placer contre quelque chose. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyer vs appuyez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. appuyer and appuyez follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVVVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: appuyer vs appuyez
This is the hard kind. appuyer and appuyez are pronounced identically (\a.pɥi.je\) and both work as averb. 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 - r in “appuyer” becomes z in “appuyez”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24591, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuyer is recorded at frequency rank #4,546, classified as averb, 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 24591, this pair ranks #345,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appuyer vs appuyez
Shared letters: aepuy. Private to "appuyer": r. Private to "appuyez": z.
"appuyer" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC · "appuyez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "appuyer" and "appuyez" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "appuyer" or "appuyez"?
After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyer" 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 #345,735 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyer" 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 #345,735 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.