Which to use
“accidenté” and “accidentés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #26,943
- “accidenté” frequency rank
- #44,284
- “accidentés” frequency rank
- 71227
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accidenté | accidentés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui offre des accidents, irrégulier. | Masculin pluriel de accidenté. |
Same sound, different letters: accidenté vs accidentés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. accidenté runs 9 letters (VCCVCVCCV) against accidentés's 10 (VCCVCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - accidenté / accidentés
This is the hard kind. accidenté and accidentés are pronounced identically (\ak.si.dɑ̃.te\) and both work as anadjective. 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 extra letter(s) - “accidenté” sits inside “accidentés”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 71227, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
accidenté is recorded at frequency rank #26,943, classified as anadj, pronounced \ak.si.dɑ̃.te\. accidentés is at rank #44,284, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ak.si.dɑ̃.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 71227, this pair ranks #48,360 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of accidenté vs accidentés
Shared letters: acdeinté. Private to "accidenté": -. Private to "accidentés": s.
"accidenté" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCVCCV · "accidentés" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCVCCVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "accidenté" for "accidentés" ever safe?
Which is more common, "accidenté" or "accidentés"?
What to do next
"accidenté" and "accidentés" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "accidenté" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accidentés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #48,360 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accidenté" and "accidentés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accidentée vs accidentés". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #48,360 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.