accorder
French, verb/a.kɔʁ.de/
accorder is spelled A-C-C-O-R-D-E-R (8 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,479th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accorder is a French verb meaning “to grant (something to someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mettre d’accord”.
What does accorder mean in English?
verb
- 1
to grant (something to someone)
- 2
to link to, to be related to
- 3
to agree on a fact
- 4
to come to an agreement
- 5
to agree, to correspond grammatically
- 6
to make correspond grammatically
- 7
to tune, to tune up
- 8
to award (a free kick, a penalty, a foul, etc.)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Mettre d’accord. 2. Ne pas rejeter ce qu'on vous propose, ne pas refuser ce qui est demandé ; reconnaître pour vrai. 3. Concilier de façon à ôter l’apparence de contradiction. 4. Convenir.
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 accorder
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- accordant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- accordé participle past
- accorde first-person indicative present
- accordes indicative present second-person
- accordons first-person indicative plural
- accordez indicative plural present
- accordent indicative plural present
- accordais first-person imperfect indicative
- accordait imperfect indicative singular
- accordions first-person imperfect indicative
- accordiez imperfect indicative plural
- accordaient imperfect indicative plural
- accordai first-person historic indicative
- accordas historic indicative past
- accorda historic indicative past
- accordâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce accorder?
- /a.kɔʁ.de/
- \a.kɔʁ.de\
- [a.kɔʁ.de]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to accorder
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is accorder in French?
accorder appears 17 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).