accrochéesvsaccrochezWhich spelling fits?

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

Which to use

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

#35,794
“accrochées” frequency rank
#33,535
“accrochez” frequency rank
69329
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: accrochées vs accrochez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters. accrochées runs 10 letters (VCCCVCCVVC) against accrochez's 9 (VCCCVCCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

10 ch
accrochées
9 ch
accrochez

Same sound, different spelling - accrochées / accrochez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: accrochées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 69329, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

accrochées is recorded at frequency rank #35,794, 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 69329, this pair ranks #55,558 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.

Orthographic DNA of accrochées vs accrochez

Shared letters: acehor. Private to "accrochées": sé. Private to "accrochez": z.

"accrochées" · 10 letters · shape VCCCVCCVVC  ·  "accrochez" · 9 letters · shape VCCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • accrochez ← accorchez · accrcohez · accrocchez · accrocehz · accrochezz · accrochhez · accrochze · accrohcez

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "accrochées" for "accrochez" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "accrochées" is an adjective and "accrochez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "accrochées" or "accrochez"?
"accrochez" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #33,535 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

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "accrochées" 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 #55,558 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "accrochées" and "accrochez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accrochages vs accrochées". 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 #55,558 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