Which to use
“accueillant” and “accueillants” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #12,893
- “accueillant” frequency rank
- #36,683
- “accueillants” frequency rank
- 49576
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | accueillant | accueillants |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui fait bon accueil. | Masculin pluriel de accueillant. |
Same sound, different letters: accueillant vs accueillants
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 11 letters. accueillant runs 11 letters (VCCVVVCCVCC) against accueillants's 12 (VCCVVVCCVCCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - accueillant and accueillants
This is the hard kind. accueillant and accueillants are pronounced identically (\a.kœ.jɑ̃\) 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) - “accueillant” sits inside “accueillants”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49576, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
accueillant is recorded at frequency rank #12,893, classified as anadj, pronounced \a.kœ.jɑ̃\. accueillants is at rank #36,683, tagged as anadj, pronounced \a.kœ.jɑ̃\.
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 49576, this pair ranks #169,513 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of accueillant vs accueillants
Shared letters: aceilntu. Private to "accueillant": -. Private to "accueillants": s.
"accueillant" · 11 letters · shape VCCVVVCCVCC · "accueillants" · 12 letters · shape VCCVVVCCVCCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- accueillant ← acceuillant · accueilalnt · accueilant · accueillannt · accueillantt · accueillatn · accueillnat · accuelilant
- accueillants ← acceuillants · accueilalnts · accueilants · accueillannts · accueillanst · accueillantss · accueillantts · accueillatns
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "accueillant" and "accueillants" be used interchangeably?
Frequency check: "accueillant" vs "accueillants" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "accueillant" / "accueillants". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "accueillant" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "accueillants" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #169,513 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "accueillant" and "accueillants" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "accueillante vs accueillants". 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 #169,513 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.