accolé

\a.kɔ.le\

/\a.kɔ.le\/ adj

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The verdict

“accolé” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,244. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#43,244
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se dit d’un meuble attenant et joint à un autre meuble.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accole · accolé · French

accolé · rank #43,244 · 7 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,244
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accidentée

Nearest frequency peer: accidentée (-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 « accolé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « accolé » 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).

accolé vs accord
67% similar
accolé vs accusé
67% similar
accolé vs accrue
50% similar

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

Key facts for accolé
PropertyValue
Headwordaccolé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.kɔ.le\
Letters6
Frequency rank#43,244
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accolé »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).accolése place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accidentée » (#43,243), « accueilleront » (#43,245), « acceptabilité » (#43,242). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accolé » est au #43,244. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around accolé (IPA \a.kɔ.le\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,244 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for accolé, with forms such as "accloé", "accole", and "accollé". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "accord", "accusé", "accrue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is accolé, spelled A-C-C-O-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Se dit d’un meuble attenant et joint à un autre meuble.
  2. 2
    Se dit d’un meuble venant entourer un autre comme le serpent autour d’un bâton, d’un lierre autour d’une colonne… L’utilisation de ce terme induit une notion hiérarchique. Le meuble entouré étant plus important que celui qui entoure. Si les deux meubles sont d’égale importance, on utilise plutôt entrelacés.
  3. 3
    Se dit du collier d’un animal lorsqu’il est d’un autre émail.
  4. 4
    Voir accolés.
  5. 5
    Deux têtes jointes sur la même médaille, sur le même camée.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Accolé : Se dit : nᵒ 1 de deux écussons qui se joignent, comme par ex. ceux de deux époux ; — nᵒ 2 de losanges, fusées et mâcles qui se touchent de leurs flancs (IV, 19) ; — nᵒ 3 d’un cep de vigne rampant contre son échalas, d’une colonne environnée d’un serpent (VI, 1ᵉʳ rang, 3) ou d’un rameau de laurier ou d’olivier, d’une épée environnée d’un rameau pa…
  2. D’azur plain ; au chef d’argent chargé d’un A senestré d’un pic accolé et posé en fasce, le manche à dextre, le tout de sable, qui est de Le Val-d’Esnoms → voir illustration « pic accolé »

This word in other languages

embracing(English)acollarado(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accloé
  • accole
  • accollé
  • accoél
  • acoclé
  • acolé
  • cacolé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accolé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

accloé2accole1accollé1accoél2acoclé2acolé1cacolé2
Edit distance from "accolé"

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 "accolé"?
"accolé" is spelled A-C-C-O-L-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kɔ.le\.
What does "accolé" mean?
As an adjective, "accolé" means: Se dit d’un meuble attenant et joint à un autre meuble.
What words are commonly confused with "accolé"?
"accolé" is commonly confused with "accord", "accusé", "accrue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accolé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accolé" is \a.kɔ.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accolé" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

albret#43,255Alexei#43,257Altman#43,259anales#43,265

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Asvel7 variantsviews7 variantsbonneau7 variantstondu7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list