Which to use
“accordées” and “accordes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #16,531
- “accordées” frequency rank
- #42,715
- “accordes” frequency rank
- 59246
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accordées | accordes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Pluriel de accordée. | Pluriel de accorde. |
Where the eye mixes accordées and accordes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 8 letters in sequence. accordées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against accordes's 8 (VCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Visual trap between accordées and accordes
A purely visual mix-up. accordées (\a.kɔʁ.de\) and accordes (\a.kɔʁd\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 59246, 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\. accordes is at rank #42,715, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.kɔʁd\.
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 59246, this pair ranks #104,240 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of accordées vs accordes
Shared letters: acdeors. Private to "accordées": é. Private to "accordes": -.
"accordées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC · "accordes" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- accordes ← accodres · accorddes · accordess · accordse · accoreds · accorrdes · accrodes · acocrdes
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "accordées" and "accordes" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "accordées" or "accordes" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "accordées" and "accordes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "accordées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accordes" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #104,240 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accordées" and "accordes" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accordes vs accordons". 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 #104,240 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.