accompagnévsaccompagnezWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#3,119
“accompagné” frequency rank
#47,710
“accompagnez” frequency rank
50829
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accompagné accompagnez
Definition Se dit de pièces qui en ont d’autres près d’elles, principalement de pièces placées au centre de l’écu. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accompagner.

Same sound, different letters: accompagné vs accompagnez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. accompagné runs 10 letters (VCCVCCVCCV) against accompagnez's 11 (VCCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
accompagné
11 ch
accompagnez

Ear matches; page differs - accompagné and accompagnez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accompagné and accompagnez 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 50829, 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\. accompagnez is at rank #47,710, 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 50829, this pair ranks #159,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accompagné vs accompagnez

Shared letters: acgmnop. Private to "accompagné": é. Private to "accompagnez": ez.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accompagnez ← accmopagnez · accomapgnez · accommpagnez · accompagenz · accompaggnez · accompagnezz · accompagnnez · accompagnze

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accompagné" and "accompagnez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accompagné" is an adjective and "accompagnez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "accompagné" vs "accompagnez" - which ranks higher?
"accompagné" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,119 in our French list, against #47,710 for "accompagnez". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

"accompagné" and "accompagnez" 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 "accompagnez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #159,623 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accompagné" and "accompagnez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagna 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

Confusion rank #159,623 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