accordéesvsaccordsWhat's the difference?

Which to use

“accordées” and “accords” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#16,531
“accordées” frequency rank
#3,656
“accords” frequency rank
20187
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accordées accords
Definition Pluriel de accordée. Conventions préliminaires d’un mariage.

Where the eye mixes accordées and accords

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. accordées runs 9 letters (VCCVCCVVC) against accords's 7 (VCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
accordées
7 ch
accords

Visual trap between accordées and accords

A purely visual mix-up. accordées (\a.kɔʁ.de\) and accords (\a.kɔʁ\) 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 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 20187, 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\. accords is at rank #3,656, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.kɔʁ\.

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 20187, this pair ranks #369,545 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of accordées vs accords

Shared letters: acdors. Private to "accordées": . Private to "accords": -.

"accordées" · 9 letters · shape VCCVCCVVC  ·  "accords" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accordsaccodrs · accordds · accordss · accorrds · accorsd · accrods · acocrds · acords

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "accordées" and "accords" be used interchangeably?
No. They are said differently (\a.kɔʁ.de\ versus \a.kɔʁ\) and carry different meanings; reading the sentence aloud is usually enough to catch the wrong one.
Which is more common, "accordées" or "accords"?
"accords" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,656 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.

After this comparison

Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accordées" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accords" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #369,545 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accordées" and "accords" 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 #369,545 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