Which to use
“appuyés” is an adjective and “appuyez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #18,116
- “appuyés” frequency rank
- #20,045
- “appuyez” frequency rank
- 38161
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appuyés | appuyez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Masculin pluriel de appuyé. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appuyer. |
Same sound, different letters: appuyés vs appuyez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Homophone desk: appuyés vs appuyez
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: appuyés 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 38161, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appuyés is recorded at frequency rank #18,116, 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 38161, this pair ranks #257,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of appuyés vs appuyez
Shared letters: apuy. Private to "appuyés": sé. Private to "appuyez": ez.
"appuyés" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC · "appuyez" · 7 letters · shape VCCVVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- appuyez ← appueyz · appuyezz · appuyyez · appuyze · appyuez · apupyez · apuyez · papuyez
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "appuyés" for "appuyez" ever safe?
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "appuyés" 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 #257,228 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appuyés" 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 #257,228 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.