acceptentvsacceptesConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#8,645
“acceptent” frequency rank
#20,626
“acceptes” frequency rank
29271
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature acceptent acceptes
Definition Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accepter. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe accepter.

Same sound, different letters: acceptent vs acceptes

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.

9 ch
acceptent
8 ch
acceptes

Homophone desk: acceptent vs acceptes

This is the hard kind. acceptent and acceptes are pronounced identically (\ak.sɛpt\) 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 29271, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

acceptent is recorded at frequency rank #8,645, classified as averb, pronounced \ak.sɛpt\. acceptes is at rank #20,626, tagged as averb, pronounced \ak.sɛpt\.

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 29271, this pair ranks #317,715 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of acceptent vs acceptes

Shared letters: acept. Private to "acceptent": n. Private to "acceptes": s.

"acceptent" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVCC  ·  "acceptes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • acceptentaccepetnt · accepptent · acceptennt · acceptentt · acceptetn · acceptnet · accepttent · accetpent
  • acceptesaccepets · accepptes · acceptess · acceptse · accepttes · accetpes · accpetes · acecptes

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "acceptent" for "acceptes" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\ak.sɛpt\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "acceptent" or "acceptes" show up more?
"acceptent" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,645 in our French list, against #20,626 for "acceptes". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've separated the homophone pair "acceptent" / "acceptes". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "acceptent" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "acceptes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #317,715 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "acceptent" and "acceptes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "acceptaient vs acceptent". 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 #317,715 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