remplievsrepliésWhat's the difference?

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

Which to use

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

#6,650
“remplie” frequency rank
#44,142
“repliés” frequency rank
50792
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature remplie repliés
Definition Féminin singulier de rempli. Participe passé masculin pluriel de replier.

Where the eye mixes remplie and repliés

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence. remplie (CVCCCVV) and repliés (CVCCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
remplie
7 ch
repliés

Why the eye confuses remplie with repliés

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: remplie is \ʁɑ̃.pli\ while repliés is \ʁə.pli.je\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 5 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 50792, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

remplie is recorded at frequency rank #6,650, classified as anadj, pronounced \ʁɑ̃.pli\. repliés is at rank #44,142, tagged as averb, pronounced \ʁə.pli.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 50792, this pair ranks #159,952 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of remplie vs repliés

Shared letters: eilpr. Private to "remplie": m. Private to "repliés": sé.

"remplie" · 7 letters · shape CVCCCVV  ·  "repliés" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "remplie" and "repliés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "remplie" is an adjective and "repliés" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "remplie" or "repliés" show up more?
"remplie" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,650 in our French list, against #44,142 for "repliés". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "remplie" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "repliés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #159,952 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "remplie" and "repliés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repliés vs réprimés". 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 #159,952 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