accompagnévsaccompagnerWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: accompagné is a adjective, accompagner is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accompagné” is an adjective and “accompagner” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#3,119
“accompagné” frequency rank
#3,890
“accompagner” frequency rank
7009
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accompagné accompagner
Definition Se dit de pièces qui en ont d’autres près d’elles, principalement de pièces placées au centre de l’écu. Aller de compagnie avec quelqu’un.

Same sound, different letters: accompagné vs accompagner

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters.

10 ch
accompagné
11 ch
accompagner

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accompagné and accompagner carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 7009, 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\. accompagner is at rank #3,890, tagged as averb, 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 7009, this pair ranks #424,553 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accompagné vs accompagner

Shared letters: acgmnop. Private to "accompagné": é. Private to "accompagner": er.

"accompagné" · 10 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCV  ·  "accompagner" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accompagneraccmopagner · accomapgner · accommpagner · accompagenr · accompaggner · accompagnerr · accompagnner · accompagnre

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "accompagné" and "accompagner" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accompagné" is an adjective and "accompagner" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accompagné" or "accompagner"?
"accompagné" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,119 in our French list, against #3,890 for "accompagner". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagné" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagner" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #424,553 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accompagné" and "accompagner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagner vs accompagnez". 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

PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list