accordéevsaccorderWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: accordée is a noun, accorder is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accordée” is a noun and “accorder” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#6,458
“accordée” frequency rank
#4,458
“accorder” frequency rank
10916
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accordée accorder
Definition Femme accordée en mariage. Mettre d’accord.

Same sound, different letters: accordée vs accorder

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. accordée (VCCVCCVV) and accorder (VCCVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

8 ch
accordée
8 ch
accorder

Homophone desk: accordée vs accorder

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accordée and accorder carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.kɔʁ.de\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, 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 10916, 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\. accorder is at rank #4,458, tagged as averb, 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 10916, this pair ranks #411,170 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accordée vs accorder

Shared letters: acdeor. Private to "accordée": é. Private to "accorder": -.

"accordée" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVV  ·  "accorder" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accorder ← accodrer · accordder · accorderr · accordre · accoredr · accorrder · accroder · acocrder

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accordée" and "accorder" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accordée" is a noun and "accorder" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accordée" or "accorder"?
"accorder" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,458 in our French list, against #6,458 for "accordée". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've separated the homophone pair "accordée" / "accorder". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accordée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accorder" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #411,170 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accordée" and "accorder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accordée vs accordes". 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 #411,170 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