Which to use
“accompagné” and “accompagnée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,119
- “accompagné” frequency rank
- #5,942
- “accompagnée” frequency rank
- 9061
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accompagné | accompagnée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Se dit de pièces qui en ont d’autres près d’elles, principalement de pièces placées au centre de l’écu. | Féminin singulier de accompagné. |
Same sound, different letters: accompagné vs accompagnée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. accompagné runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against accompagnée's 11 (VCCVCCVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Homophone desk: accompagné vs accompagnée
This is the hard kind. accompagné and accompagnée are pronounced identically (\a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\) 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) - “accompagné” sits inside “accompagnée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9061, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
accompagné is recorded at frequency rank #3,119, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\. accompagnée is at rank #5,942, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\.
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 9061, this pair ranks #417,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of accompagné vs accompagnée
Shared letters: acgmnopé. Private to "accompagné": -. Private to "accompagnée": e.
"accompagné" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "accompagnée" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "accompagné" and "accompagnée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "accompagné" or "accompagnée" show up more?
What to do next
"accompagné" and "accompagnée" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "accompagné" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accompagnée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #417,924 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accompagné" and "accompagnée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagnée vs accompagnez". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #417,924 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.