accrovsastroTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#10,815
“accro” frequency rank
#30,477
“astro” frequency rank
41292
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accro astro
Definition Personne dépendante d’une drogue. Astronomique.

Where the eye mixes accro and astro

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. accro and astro follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

5 ch
accro
5 ch
astro

Look-alike desk: accro vs astro

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: accro is \a.kʁo\ while astro is \as.tʁo\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41292, 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\. astro is at rank #30,477, tagged as anadj, pronounced \as.tʁo\.

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 41292, this pair ranks #234,187 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accro vs astro

Shared letters: aor. Private to "accro": c. Private to "astro": st.

"accro" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV  ·  "astro" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accro ← accor · accrro · acrco · acro · cacro
  • astro ← asrto · asstro · astrro · asttro · atsro · satro

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accro" for "astro" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accro" is a noun and "astro" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accro" or "astro"?
"accro" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #10,815 in our French list, against #30,477 for "astro". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Eye-level mix-up between "accro" and "astro" 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 "astro" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #234,187 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accro" and "astro" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "astor vs astro". 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 #234,187 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