acceptavsacceptéeConfusable pair

Which to use

“accepta” and “acceptée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#21,221
“accepta” frequency rank
#9,261
“acceptée” frequency rank
30482
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accepta acceptée
Definition Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de accepter. Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe accepter.

Where the eye mixes accepta and acceptée

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

7 ch
accepta
8 ch
acceptée

Why the eye confuses accepta with acceptée

A purely visual mix-up. accepta (\ak.sɛp.ta\) and acceptée (\ak.sɛp.te\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30482, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accepta is recorded at frequency rank #21,221, classified as averb, pronounced \ak.sɛp.ta\. acceptée is at rank #9,261, tagged as averb, pronounced \ak.sɛp.te\.

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 30482, this pair ranks #310,040 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accepta vs acceptée

Shared letters: acept. Private to "accepta": -. Private to "acceptée": é.

"accepta" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCV  ·  "acceptée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acceptaaccepat · acceppta · acceptta · accetpa · accpeta · acecpta · acepta · cacepta

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accepta" for "acceptée" ever safe?
No. They are said differently (\ak.sɛp.ta\ versus \ak.sɛp.te\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "accepta" or "acceptée"?
"acceptée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,261 in our French list, against #21,221 for "accepta". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accepta" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acceptée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #310,040 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accepta" and "acceptée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accepta vs acheta". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #310,040 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list