accompagnévsaccompagnéeWhat's the difference?

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.

10 ch
accompagné
11 ch
accompagnée

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?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\), 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 "accompagné" or "accompagnée" show up more?
"accompagné" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,119 in our French list, against #5,942 for "accompagnée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

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.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list