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Which to use

“repliée” and “repliés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#41,498
“repliée” frequency rank
#44,142
“repliés” frequency rank
85640
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature repliée repliés
Definition Participe passé féminin singulier de replier. Participe passé masculin pluriel de replier.

Same sound, different letters: repliée vs repliés

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. repliée (CVCCVVV) and repliés (CVCCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
repliée
7 ch
repliés

Homophone desk: repliée vs repliés

This is the hard kind. repliée and repliés 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 differ by a single letter - e in “repliée” becomes s in “repliés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 85640, 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\. 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 85640, this pair ranks #10,994 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of repliée vs repliés

Shared letters: eilpré. Private to "repliée": -. Private to "repliés": s.

"repliée" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVV  ·  "repliés" · 7 letters · shape CVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "repliée" and "repliés" be used interchangeably?
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.
Which is more common, "repliée" or "repliés"?
"repliée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #41,498 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

"repliée" and "repliés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "repliée" 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 #10,994 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "repliée" and "repliés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "repliés vs réprimés". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #10,994 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