Which to use
“acceptée” and “accepter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #9,261
- “acceptée” frequency rank
- #1,797
- “accepter” frequency rank
- 11058
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | acceptée | accepter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe accepter. | Agréer ce qui est offert. |
Same sound, different letters: acceptée vs accepter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - acceptée and accepter
This is the hard kind. acceptée and accepter are pronounced identically (\ak.sɛp.te\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11058, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
acceptée is recorded at frequency rank #9,261, classified as averb, pronounced \ak.sɛp.te\. accepter is at rank #1,797, 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 11058, this pair ranks #410,627 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of acceptée vs accepter
Shared letters: acept. Private to "acceptée": é. Private to "accepter": r.
"acceptée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV · "accepter" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- accepter ← accepetr · acceppter · accepterr · acceptre · acceptter · accetper · accpeter · acecpter
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "acceptée" and "accepter" be used interchangeably?
In ordinary French text, does "acceptée" or "accepter" show up more?
After this comparison
"acceptée" and "accepter" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "acceptée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accepter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #410,627 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "acceptée" and "accepter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accepter vs accepterai". 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 #410,627 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.