accolade
French, noun/a.kɔ.lad/
accolade is spelled A-C-C-O-L-A-D-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 33,160th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accolade is a French feminine noun meaning “curly bracket (brace)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of accolader. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’embrasser en mettant les bras autour du cou”.
What does accolade mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininecurly bracket (brace)
- 2
feminineaccolade (knights)
- 3
feminineembrace
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action d’embrasser en mettant les bras autour du cou. 2. Cérémonies observées dans la réception d’un chevalier, et qui consistait ordinairement à donner trois coups du plat de l’épée sur l’épaule ou sur le cou de celui qu’on armait chevalier, après quoi on l’embrassait. 3. Symbole typographique { ou }, qui servent à rassembler plusieurs objets, soit pour en former un tout, soit pour montrer ce qu’ils ont de commun ou d’analogue entre eux. 4. Élément architectural ornemental.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of accolade
- accolades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accolade?
- /a.kɔ.lad/
- \a.kɔ.lad\
- [yn‿a.kɔ.lad]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to accolade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accolade in French?
accolade appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).