accompagnéevsaccompagnentTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#5,942
“accompagnée” frequency rank
#10,267
“accompagnent” frequency rank
16209
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accompagnée accompagnent
Definition Féminin singulier de accompagné. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accompagner.

Where the eye mixes accompagnée and accompagnent

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 10 letters in sequence. accompagnée runs 11 letters (VCCVCCVCCVV) against accompagnent's 12 (VCCVCCVCCVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

11 ch
accompagnée
12 ch
accompagnent

Look-alike desk: accompagnée vs accompagnent

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: accompagnée is \a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\ while accompagnent is \a.kɔ̃.paɲ\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16209, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accompagnée is recorded at frequency rank #5,942, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.kɔ̃.pa.ɲe\. accompagnent is at rank #10,267, tagged as averb, pronounced \a.kɔ̃.paɲ\.

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 16209, this pair ranks #388,870 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accompagnée vs accompagnent

Shared letters: acegmnop. Private to "accompagnée": é. Private to "accompagnent": t.

"accompagnée" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVV  ·  "accompagnent" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accompagnent ← accmopagnent · accomapgnent · accommpagnent · accompagennt · accompaggnent · accompagnennt · accompagnentt · accompagnetn

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accompagnée" and "accompagnent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accompagnée" is an adjective and "accompagnent" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "accompagnée" vs "accompagnent" - which ranks higher?
"accompagnée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #5,942 in our French list, against #10,267 for "accompagnent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagnée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagnent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #388,870 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accompagnée" and "accompagnent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagnent 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 #388,870 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