Which to use
“accro” and “accru” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,815
- “accro” frequency rank
- #13,502
- “accru” frequency rank
- 24317
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accro | accru |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Personne dépendante d’une drogue. | Rejeton produit par la racine. |
Where the eye mixes accro and accru
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. accro and accru follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Look-alike desk: accro vs accru
A purely visual mix-up. accro (\a.kʁo\) and accru (\a.kʁy\) 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 a single letter - o in “accro” becomes u in “accru”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 24317, 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\. accru is at rank #13,502, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.kʁy\.
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 24317, this pair ranks #347,289 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of accro vs accru
Shared letters: acr. Private to "accro": o. Private to "accru": u.
"accro" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV · "accru" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "accro" for "accru" ever safe?
Frequency check: "accro" vs "accru" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "accro" and "accru" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "accro" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accru" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #347,289 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accro" and "accru" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accru vs aru". 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 #347,289 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.