Which to use
“repliée” and “replier” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #41,498
- “repliée” frequency rank
- #21,145
- “replier” frequency rank
- 62643
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | repliée | replier |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de replier. | Plier une chose qui avait été dépliée. |
Same sound, different letters: repliée vs replier
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. repliée (CVCCVVV) and replier (CVCCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Same sound, different spelling - repliée / replier
This is the hard kind. repliée and replier are pronounced identically (\ʁə.pli.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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 62643, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
repliée is recorded at frequency rank #41,498, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.pli.je\. replier is at rank #21,145, 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 62643, this pair ranks #86,068 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of repliée vs replier
Shared letters: eilpr. Private to "repliée": é. Private to "replier": -.
"repliée" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV · "replier" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- replier ← erplier · relpier · repiler · repleir · replierr · replire · repllier · repplier
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "repliée" and "replier" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "repliée" vs "replier" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "repliée" / "replier". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "repliée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "replier" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #86,068 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "repliée" and "replier" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repliée vs replient". 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 #86,068 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.