repliéevsreplierConfusable pair

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.

7 ch
repliée
7 ch
replier

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ʁə.pli.je\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "repliée" vs "replier" - which ranks higher?
"replier" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,145 in our French list, against #41,498 for "repliée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list