Which to use
“accordéon” and “accordes” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #22,151
- “accordéon” frequency rank
- #42,715
- “accordes” frequency rank
- 64866
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accordéon | accordes |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Instrument à vent, composé d’un soufflet permettant le déplacement de l’air et de touches permettant des changements de tonalité, le son est produit par un système d’anches libres. Il dispose de deux claviers : l’un pour le chant à main droite, l’autre pour l’accompagnement à main gauche. | Pluriel de accorde. |
Where the eye mixes accordéon and accordes
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. accordéon 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 accordéon and accordes
A purely visual mix-up. accordéon (\a.kɔʁ.de.ɔ̃\) 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 64866, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
accordéon is recorded at frequency rank #22,151, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.kɔʁ.de.ɔ̃\. 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 64866, this pair ranks #74,987 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of accordéon vs accordes
Shared letters: acdor. Private to "accordéon": né. Private to "accordes": es.
"accordéon" · 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
Is swapping "accordéon" for "accordes" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "accordéon" or "accordes" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "accordéon" and "accordes" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "accordéon" 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 #74,987 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accordéon" 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 #74,987 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.