accrochéevsaccrochezWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: accrochée is a adjective, accrochez is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“accrochée” is an adjective and “accrochez” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#21,222
“accrochée” frequency rank
#33,535
“accrochez” frequency rank
54757
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature accrochée accrochez
Definition Féminin singulier de accroché. Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accrocher.

Same sound, different letters: accrochée vs accrochez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

9 ch
accrochée
9 ch
accrochez

Same sound, different spelling - accrochée / accrochez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accrochée and accrochez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \a.kʁɔ.ʃe\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54757, 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\. accrochez is at rank #33,535, tagged as averb, 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 54757, this pair ranks #131,890 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of accrochée vs accrochez

Shared letters: acehor. Private to "accrochée": é. Private to "accrochez": z.

"accrochée" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVV  ·  "accrochez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accrochezaccorchez · accrcohez · accrocchez · accrocehz · accrochezz · accrochhez · accrochze · accrohcez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "accrochée" and "accrochez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accrochée" is an adjective and "accrochez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "accrochée" or "accrochez" show up more?
"accrochée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,222 in our French list, against #33,535 for "accrochez". 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" / "accrochez". 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 "accrochez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #131,890 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accrochée" and "accrochez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accrocheur vs accrochez". 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 #131,890 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