accordéesvsaccorderWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#16,531
“accordées” frequency rank
#4,458
“accorder” frequency rank
20989
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accordées accorder
Definition Pluriel de accordée. Mettre d’accord.

Same sound, different letters: accordées vs accorder

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. accordées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against accorder's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
accordées
8 ch
accorder

Same sound, different spelling - accordées / accorder

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accordées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20989, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accordées is recorded at frequency rank #16,531, 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 20989, this pair ranks #365,449 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accordées vs accorder

Shared letters: acdeor. Private to "accordées": sé. Private to "accorder": -.

"accordées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "accorder" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accordées" and "accorder" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accordées" is a noun and "accorder" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "accordées" vs "accorder" - which ranks higher?
"accorder" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #4,458 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.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accordées" 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 #365,449 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accordées" and "accorder" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accordées 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 #365,449 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