accordéesvsaccordezWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#16,531
“accordées” frequency rank
#29,621
“accordez” frequency rank
46152
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accordées accordez
Definition Pluriel de accordée. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accorder.

Same sound, different letters: accordées vs accordez

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

9 ch
accordées
8 ch
accordez

Ear matches; page differs - accordées and accordez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accordées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 46152, 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\. 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 46152, this pair ranks #197,189 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accordées vs accordez

Shared letters: acdeor. Private to "accordées": . Private to "accordez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

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

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accordées" and "accordez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accordées" is a noun and "accordez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accordées" or "accordez"?
"accordées" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #16,531 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

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accordées" 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 #197,189 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accordées" 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 #197,189 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