accordéevsaccordéesTell them apart

Which to use

“accordée” and “accordées” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#6,458
“accordée” frequency rank
#16,531
“accordées” frequency rank
22989
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accordée accordées
Definition Femme accordée en mariage. Pluriel de accordée.

Same sound, different letters: accordée vs accordées

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. accordée runs 8 letters (VCCVCCVV) against accordées's 9 (VCCVCCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

8 ch
accordée
9 ch
accordées

Homophone desk: accordée vs accordées

This is the hard kind. accordée and accordées are pronounced identically (\a.kɔʁ.de\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “accordée” sits inside “accordées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 22989, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accordée is recorded at frequency rank #6,458, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.kɔʁ.de\. accordées is at rank #16,531, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.kɔʁ.de\.

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 22989, this pair ranks #354,981 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accordée vs accordées

Shared letters: acdeoré. Private to "accordée": -. Private to "accordées": s.

"accordée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "accordées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accordée" and "accordées" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.kɔʁ.de\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "accordée" vs "accordées" - which ranks higher?
"accordée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,458 in our French list, against #16,531 for "accordées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accordée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accordées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #354,981 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accordée" and "accordées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accordées vs accordes". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #354,981 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