accordéevsaccordezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#6,458
“accordée” frequency rank
#29,621
“accordez” frequency rank
36079
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accordée accordez
Definition Femme accordée en mariage. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accorder.

Same sound, different letters: accordée vs accordez

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

8 ch
accordée
8 ch
accordez

Ear matches; page differs - accordée and accordez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accordée and accordez 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 36079, 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\. accordez is at rank #29,621, 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 36079, this pair ranks #272,149 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accordée vs accordez

Shared letters: acdeor. Private to "accordée": é. Private to "accordez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accordezaccodrez · accorddez · accordezz · accordze · accoredz · accorrdez · accrodez · acocrdez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accordée" and "accordez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accordée" is a noun and "accordez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accordée" or "accordez"?
"accordée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #6,458 in our French list, against #29,621 for "accordez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

"accordée" and "accordez" 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 "accordez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #272,149 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accordée" and "accordez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accordes vs accordez". 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 #272,149 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