accompagnéevsaccompagnerWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#5,942
“accompagnée” frequency rank
#3,890
“accompagner” frequency rank
9832
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accompagnée accompagner
Definition Féminin singulier de accompagné. Aller de compagnie avec quelqu’un.

Same sound, different letters: accompagnée vs accompagner

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. accompagnée (VCCVCCVCCVV) and accompagner (VCCVCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

11 ch
accompagnée
11 ch
accompagner

Ear matches; page differs - accompagnée and accompagner

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accompagnée 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 9832, 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\. 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 9832, this pair ranks #415,232 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accompagnée vs accompagner

Shared letters: acegmnop. Private to "accompagnée": é. Private to "accompagner": r.

"accompagnée" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVV  ·  "accompagner" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accompagner ← accmopagner · accomapgner · accommpagner · accompagenr · accompaggner · accompagnerr · accompagnner · accompagnre

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accompagnée" and "accompagner" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accompagnée" is an adjective and "accompagner" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "accompagnée" vs "accompagner" - which ranks higher?
"accompagner" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,890 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.

Useful next steps

"accompagnée" and "accompagner" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagnée" 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 #415,232 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accompagnée" and "accompagner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagnée 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 #415,232 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