accompagnéesvsaccompagnerConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#13,952
“accompagnées” frequency rank
#3,890
“accompagner” frequency rank
17842
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accompagnées accompagner
Definition Féminin pluriel de accompagné. Aller de compagnie avec quelqu’un.

Same sound, different letters: accompagnées vs accompagner

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters.

12 ch
accompagnées
11 ch
accompagner

Same sound, different spelling - accompagnées / accompagner

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accompagnées 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 17842, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accompagnées is recorded at frequency rank #13,952, 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 17842, this pair ranks #381,206 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accompagnées vs accompagner

Shared letters: acegmnop. Private to "accompagnées": . Private to "accompagner": r.

"accompagnées" · 12 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVVC  ·  "accompagner" · 11 letters · shape VCCVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "accompagnées" and "accompagner" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accompagnées" is an adjective and "accompagner" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "accompagnées" 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 #13,952 for "accompagnées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagnées" 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 #381,206 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accompagnées" and "accompagner" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accompagnées 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 #381,206 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