accrovsaccrosTell them apart

Quick tell: accro is a noun, accros is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accro” is a noun and “accros” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#10,815
“accro” frequency rank
#23,743
“accros” frequency rank
34558
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accro accros
Definition Personne dépendante d’une drogue. Pluriel de accro.

Same sound, different letters: accro vs accros

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. accro runs 5 letters (VCCCV) against accros's 6 (VCCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

5 ch
accro
6 ch
accros

Ear matches; page differs - accro and accros

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accro and accros carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.kʁo\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anoun, the other anadjective, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “accro” sits inside “accros”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 34558, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accro is recorded at frequency rank #10,815, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.kʁo\. accros is at rank #23,743, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.kʁo\.

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 34558, this pair ranks #282,949 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accro vs accros

Shared letters: acor. Private to "accro": -. Private to "accros": s.

"accro" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV  ·  "accros" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accroaccor · accrro · acrco · acro · cacro
  • accrosaccors · accross · accrros · accrso · acrcos · acros · cacros

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accro" for "accros" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accro" is a noun and "accros" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accro" or "accros"?
"accro" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,815 in our French list, against #23,743 for "accros". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accros" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #282,949 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accro" and "accros" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accros vs across". 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 #282,949 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