Which to use
“accentué” is a verb and “accentuées” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #22,149
- “accentué” frequency rank
- #47,132
- “accentuées” frequency rank
- 69281
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accentué | accentuées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe accentuer. | Féminin pluriel de accentué. |
Same sound, different letters: accentué vs accentuées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. accentué runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVV) against accentuées's 10 (VCCVCCVVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - accentué and accentuées
Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accentué and accentuées carry the same recorded pronunciation, \ak.sɑ̃.tɥe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is averb, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “accentué” sits inside “accentuées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69281, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
accentué is recorded at frequency rank #22,149, classified as averb, pronounced \ak.sɑ̃.tɥe\. accentuées is at rank #47,132, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ak.sɑ̃.tɥe\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 69281, this pair ranks #55,764 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of accentué vs accentuées
Shared letters: acentué. Private to "accentué": -. Private to "accentuées": s.
"accentué" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "accentuées" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
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Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "accentué" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accentuées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #55,764 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accentué" and "accentuées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accentuées vs accentuent". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #55,764 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.