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

#35,795
“accrédité” frequency rank
#39,131
“accrédités” frequency rank
74926
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accrédité accrédités
Definition Qui est digne de confiance, vraisemblable, crédible. Masculin pluriel de accrédité.

Same sound, different letters: accrédité vs accrédités

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 9 letters. accrédité runs 9 letters (VCCCVCVCV) against accrédités's 10 (VCCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

9 ch
accrédité
10 ch
accrédités

Same sound, different spelling - accrédité / accrédités

This is the hard kind. accrédité and accrédités are pronounced identically (\a.kʁe.di.te\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “accrédité” sits inside “accrédités”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 74926, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accrédité is recorded at frequency rank #35,795, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.kʁe.di.te\. accrédités is at rank #39,131, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.kʁe.di.te\.

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 74926, this pair ranks #35,621 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of accrédité vs accrédités

Shared letters: acdirté. Private to "accrédité": -. Private to "accrédités": s.

"accrédité" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCVCV  ·  "accrédités" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCVCVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accrédité" and "accrédités" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.kʁe.di.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Which is more common, "accrédité" or "accrédités"?
"accrédité" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #35,795 in our French list, against #39,131 for "accrédités". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accrédité" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accrédités" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #35,621 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accrédité" and "accrédités" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accréditer vs accrédités". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #35,621 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