accorder

/\a.kɔʁ.de\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,458

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

accorder is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre d’accord. Pronounced \a.kɔʁ.de\. It ranks #4,458 in French word frequency. Often confused with accords and accordez.

Key facts for accorder
PropertyValue
Headwordaccorder
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.kɔʁ.de\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,458
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of accorder in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for accorder is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kɔʁ.de\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,458 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for accorder, with forms such as "accodrer", "accordder", and "accorderr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "accords", "accordez", "accoster", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is accorder, spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mettre d’accord.
  2. 2
    Ne pas rejeter ce qu'on vous propose, ne pas refuser ce qui est demandé ; reconnaître pour vrai.
  3. 3
    Concilier de façon à ôter l’apparence de contradiction.
  4. 4
    Convenir.
  5. 5
    Établir la justesse d’un instrument de musique grâce à un diapason, selon le rapport exact entre les notes de la gamme tempérée.
  6. 6
    Mettre plusieurs instruments au même diapason.
  7. 7
    Assortir les couleurs et les nuances de manière à produire un effet harmonieux.
  8. 8
    Octroyer ; concéder.
  9. 9
    Mettre entre les mots d'une même phrase la concordance que prescrit la syntaxe.
  10. 10
    Joindre, c'est en montant les pièces de marbre, les faire affleurer, les faire joindre avant de les polir.
  11. 11
    Se mettre d'accord ; s'entendre sur un sujet.
  12. 12
    Se fiancer.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: accodrer,accordder,accorderr,accordre,accoredr,accorrder,accroder,acocrder,acorder,cacorder

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accorder

Misspelling Variants of "accorder"

accodrer8accordder9accorderr9accordre8accoredr8accorrder9accroder8acocrder8
Misspelling Variants of "accorder"

Frequency rank: #4,458 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accorder"?
"accorder" is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kɔʁ.de\.
What does "accorder" mean?
As a verb, "accorder" means: Mettre d’accord.
What words are commonly confused with "accorder"?
"accorder" is commonly confused with "accords", "accordez", "accoster". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accorder"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accorder" is \a.kɔʁ.de\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accorder" come from?
"accorder" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.