accordent

\a.kɔʁd\

/\a.kɔʁd\/ verb

The verdict

“accordent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,624. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,624
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accorder.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accordent · accordent · French

accordent · rank #10,624 · 12 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,624
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abouti

Nearest frequency peer: abouti (-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 « accordent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « accordent » 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).

accordent vs accorder
78% similar
accordent vs accordez
78% similar
accordent vs accordes
78% similar

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

Key facts for accordent
PropertyValue
Headwordaccordent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.kɔʁd\
Letters9
Frequency rank#10,624
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accordent »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).accordentse 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 « abouti » (#10,623), « accroissement » (#10,625), « étroitement » (#10,622). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accordent » est au #10,624. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around accordent (IPA \a.kɔʁd\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,624 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for accordent, with forms such as "accodrent", "accorddent", and "accordennt". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "accorder", "accordez", "accordes", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is accordent, spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accorder.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe accorder.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un cultivateur de riz, un autre de thé, un ostréiculteur, un moine bouddhiste cuisinier, un forgeron de katana, un champion de plongée libre, une geiko (geisha de Kyoto) ou encore une jeune karatéka témoignent de leur quotidien et de l’importance qu’ils accordent à la composante spirituelle de ce qui les environne ainsi que de leur attachement aux traditi…
  2. C’est donc le nom de « refus scolaire anxieux », ou RSA, qui est désormais celui sur lequel s’accordent les spécialistes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accodrent
  • accorddent
  • accordennt
  • accordentt
  • accordetn
  • accordnet
  • accorednt
  • accorrdent
  • accrodent
  • acocrdent
  • acordent
  • cacordent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

accodrent2accorddent1accordennt1accordentt1accordetn2accordnet2accorednt2accorrdent1
Edit distance from "accordent"

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 "accordent"?
"accordent" is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kɔʁd\.
What does "accordent" mean?
As a verb, "accordent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accorder.
What words are commonly confused with "accordent"?
"accordent" is commonly confused with "accorder", "accordez", "accordes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accordent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accordent" is \a.kɔʁd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accordent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list