accolade

\a.kɔ.lad\

/\a.kɔ.lad\/ noun

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The verdict

“accolade” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,097. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,097
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’embrasser en mettant les bras autour du cou.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accolade · accolade · French

accolade · rank #33,097 · 9 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,097
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abîmée

Nearest frequency peer: abîmée (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « accolade »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « accolade » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

accolade vs accolé
63% similar
accolade vs accordé
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for accolade
PropertyValue
Headwordaccolade
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.kɔ.lad\
Letters8
Frequency rank#33,097
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accolade »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.accoladese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « abîmée » (#33,096), « aciers » (#33,098), « absurdités » (#33,095). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accolade » est au #33,097. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around accolade (IPA \a.kɔ.lad\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,097 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for accolade, with forms such as "accloade", "accoalde", and "accoladde". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "accolé", "accordé", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is accolade, spelled A-C-C-O-L-A-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’embrasser en mettant les bras autour du cou.
  2. 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. 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. 4
    Élément architectural ornemental.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how accolade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Donner l’accolade à un officier après l’avoir fait reconnaître.
  2. Une accolade fraternelle.

Synonyms

embrassade

This word in other languages

hug(English)abrazo(Español)Akkolade(Deutsch)abraço(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accloade
  • accoalde
  • accoladde
  • accolaed
  • accoldae
  • accollade
  • acoclade
  • acolade
  • cacolade

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accolade - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

accloade2accoalde2accoladde1accolaed2accoldae2accollade1acoclade2acolade1
Edit distance from "accolade"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accolade"?
"accolade" is spelled A-C-C-O-L-A-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kɔ.lad\.
What does "accolade" mean?
As a noun, "accolade" means: Action d’embrasser en mettant les bras autour du cou.
What words are commonly confused with "accolade"?
"accolade" is commonly confused with "accolé", "accordé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accolade"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accolade" is \a.kɔ.lad\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accolade" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accolade", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

évacuées#33,092énoncées#33,087Amazones#33,109ébranler#33,084

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

arctic9 variantswedding9 variantsassainir9 variantsViennois9 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list