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accord

/əˈkɔɹd/noun, verb

accord is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, accord means “Agreement of opinion, will, or action” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of accord is accords.

How many letters and syllables are in accord?

Letters6: A-C-C-O-R-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is accord?

Accord appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce accord?

  • UK /əˈkɔːd/
  • US /əˈkɔɹd/

Accord has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-accord.ogg, En-au-accord.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with accord?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as accord from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹd/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of accord

  • accords plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • according participle, present
  • accorded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does accord mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Agreement of opinion, will, or action.

  2. 2

    Agreement in pitch and tone; harmony, musical concord.

  3. 3

    Agreement or harmony of things in general.

    the accord of light and shade in painting

  4. 4

    A distinctive mixture of fragrances or the odor thereof.

  5. 5

    An agreement between parties in controversy, by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, prevents a lawsuit.

  6. 6

    An international agreement.

    The Geneva Accord of 1954 ended the French-Indochinese War.

  7. 7

    Voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act.

    Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.

verb

  1. 1

    To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

  2. 2

    To bring (people) to an agreement; to reconcile, settle, adjust or harmonize.

  3. 3

    To agree or correspond; to be in harmony; to be concordant.

  4. 4

    To agree in pitch and tone.

  5. 5

    To grant as suitable or proper; to concede or award.

    The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations will be the acid test of their good will.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo give consent.

  7. 7

    archaicTo arrive at an agreement.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Accord in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchentente (agreement or concurrence of opinion), accorder (transitive: to grant)
GermanÜbereinstimmung, Einvernehmen, Übereinkommen, Übereinkunft (agreement or concurrence of opinion), Akkord (harmony of sounds), Abstimmung (agreement, harmony, or just correspondence)
Portugueseacordo (agreement or concurrence of opinion)
Spanishacuerdo, convenio (agreement or concurrence of opinion), iniciativa propia, voluntad propia (voluntary or spontaneous impulse to act), acordar, concordar con (transitive: to make to agree or correspond)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does accord come from?

From Middle English accord, from Old French acort, from acorder (see verb below).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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