remplacévsremplieWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: remplacé is a verb, remplie is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“remplacé” is a verb and “remplie” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,796
“remplacé” frequency rank
#6,650
“remplie” frequency rank
10446
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remplacé remplie
Definition Participe passé masculin singulier de remplacer. Féminin singulier de rempli.

Where the eye mixes remplacé and remplie

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. remplacé runs 8 letters (CVCCCVCV) against remplie's 7 (CVCCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
remplacé
7 ch
remplie

Visual trap between remplacé and remplie

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remplacé is \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\ while remplie is \ʁɑ̃.pli\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 10446, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remplacé is recorded at frequency rank #3,796, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pla.se\. remplie is at rank #6,650, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pli\.

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 10446, this pair ranks #412,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of remplacé vs remplie

Shared letters: elmpr. Private to "remplacé": acé. Private to "remplie": i.

"remplacé" · 8 letters · shape CVCCCVCV  ·  "remplie" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • remplie ← ermplie · remlpie · remmplie · rempile · remplei · rempllie · rempplie · repmlie

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remplacé" and "remplie" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remplacé" is a verb and "remplie" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "remplacé" vs "remplie" - which ranks higher?
"remplacé" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,796 in our French list, against #6,650 for "remplie". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "remplacé" and "remplie" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remplacé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "remplie" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #412,969 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remplacé" and "remplie" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "remplie vs remplira". 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 #412,969 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list