accrochéevsaccrochéesConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#21,222
“accrochée” frequency rank
#35,794
“accrochées” frequency rank
57016
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accrochée accrochées
Definition Féminin singulier de accroché. Féminin pluriel de accroché.

Same sound, different letters: accrochée vs accrochées

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

9 ch
accrochée
10 ch
accrochées

Same sound, different spelling - accrochée / accrochées

This is the hard kind. accrochée and accrochées are pronounced identically (\a.kʁɔ.ʃe\) 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) - “accrochée” sits inside “accrochées”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57016, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accrochée is recorded at frequency rank #21,222, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.kʁɔ.ʃe\. accrochées is at rank #35,794, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.kʁɔ.ʃe\.

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 57016, this pair ranks #117,541 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accrochée vs accrochées

Shared letters: acehoré. Private to "accrochée": -. Private to "accrochées": s.

"accrochée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV  ·  "accrochées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVC

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accrochée" for "accrochées" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\a.kʁɔ.ʃe\), 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, "accrochée" or "accrochées"?
"accrochée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,222 in our French list, against #35,794 for "accrochées". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "accrochée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "accrochées" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #117,541 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accrochée" and "accrochées" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accrochages vs accrochées". Nearby pair

Confusion rank #117,541 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