Which to use
“accompagné” and “accompagnées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #3,119
- “accompagné” frequency rank
- #13,952
- “accompagnées” frequency rank
- 17071
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accompagné | accompagnées |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Se dit de pièces qui en ont d’autres près d’elles, principalement de pièces placées au centre de l’écu. | Féminin pluriel de accompagné. |
Same sound, different letters: accompagné vs accompagnées
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. accompagné runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against accompagnées's 12 (VCCVCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Same sound, different spelling - accompagné / accompagnées
This is the hard kind. accompagné and accompagnées 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 2 extra letter(s) - “accompagné” sits inside “accompagnées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17071, 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\. accompagnées is at rank #13,952, 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 17071, this pair ranks #384,942 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of accompagné vs accompagnées
Shared letters: acgmnopé. Private to "accompagné": -. Private to "accompagnées": es.
"accompagné" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV · "accompagnées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVVC
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "accompagné" for "accompagnées" ever safe?
Which is more common, "accompagné" or "accompagnées"?
Useful next steps
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "accompagné" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accompagnées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #384,942 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accompagné" and "accompagnées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagnées vs accompagnez". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #384,942 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.