accompagnéesvsaccompagnezConfusable pair

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

Which to use

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

#13,952
“accompagnées” frequency rank
#47,710
“accompagnez” frequency rank
61662
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accompagnées accompagnez
Definition Féminin pluriel de accompagné. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accompagner.

Same sound, different letters: accompagnées vs accompagnez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 10 letters. accompagnées runs 12 letters (VCCVCCVCCVVC) against accompagnez's 11 (VCCVCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

12 ch
accompagnées
11 ch
accompagnez

Same sound, different spelling - accompagnées / accompagnez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accompagnées 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 61662, 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\. 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 61662, this pair ranks #91,112 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of accompagnées vs accompagnez

Shared letters: acegmnop. Private to "accompagnées": sé. Private to "accompagnez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accompagnées" for "accompagnez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accompagnées" is an adjective and "accompagnez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "accompagnées" or "accompagnez" show up more?
"accompagnées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,952 in our French list, against #47,710 for "accompagnez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accompagnées" 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 #91,112 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accompagnées" 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 #91,112 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