À l’écrit, je confonds encore l’accent aigu et l’accent grave.

À l’écrit is a very common French expression meaning in writing, when writing, or in written form.

It is built with:

• à = in / as for / in the context of
• l’écrit = writing, the written form

So À l’écrit sets the context for the rest of the sentence: when it comes to writing.

A very common pair is:

• à l’écrit = in writing
• à l’oral = in speaking

Examples:

• À l’oral, ça va. À l’écrit, c’est plus difficile.
• Je fais peu d’erreurs à l’oral, mais j’en fais à l’écrit.

Because here écrit is being used as a noun, not as a verb form or adjective.

• écrit can be the past participle of écrire
• but in expressions like l’écrit, it means the written form or writing

French often uses an article before nouns in cases where English would not.

So:

• à l’écrit = literally in the written
• natural English: in writing

This is similar to:

• à l’oral = in speaking
• à l’école = at school

Because à and a are two different words in French.

• à = to / at / in
• a = has (from avoir)

So in À l’écrit, the word is the preposition à, which must have the accent.

Examples:

• Je vais à Paris.
• Il a un livre.

That accent is very important because it distinguishes two different words.

Je confonds is the 1st person singular present tense of the verb confondre, which means to confuse / to mix up.

Conjugation in the present:

• je confonds
• tu confonds
• il/elle confond
• nous confondons
• vous confondez
• ils/elles confondent

In this sentence, je confonds means I confuse or more naturally I still mix up.

A useful point: in pronunciation, the final -s in confonds is normally silent.

In French, short adverbs like encore, déjà, bien, souvent often come after the conjugated verb.

So:

• je confonds encore
• il travaille déjà
• nous mangeons souvent ici

Here encore means still.

So the structure is:

• je confonds encore X et Y = I still mix up X and Y

This placement is very normal in French.

These are the names of two French accent marks:

• accent aigu = é
• accent grave = è, and also à, ù

In everyday French class terms:

• é = acute accent
• è = grave accent

So the sentence is saying the speaker still confuses those two accent types when writing.

A pronunciation shortcut:

• é usually sounds more closed / like the vowel in say without the glide
• è usually sounds more open / a bit more like bed

That is a simplification, but it helps beginners.

Because in French, many adjectives come after the noun, and these two are standard fixed names:

• un accent aigu
• un accent grave

French often names symbols, categories, and technical terms this way.

Also, aigu and grave must agree with accent, which is masculine singular, so we get:

• aigu (not aiguë)
• grave

If the noun changed, agreement would change too.

French often repeats the article when listing two distinct things, especially when each item is being clearly identified.

So:

• l’accent aigu et l’accent grave sounds natural and clear.

You might sometimes see coordination without repeating the article in other contexts, but here repetition is the most standard and natural choice because these are treated as two separate accent types.

It helps the sentence sound balanced:

• l’accent aigu
• l’accent grave

A careful pronunciation would be approximately:

a ले-kree, zhuh კონ-fon(z) ahn-kor lak-san ay-gu ee lak-san grav

More usefully, here are the key points:

• À l’écrit → the à links smoothly to l’écrit
• je sounds like zhuh
• confonds ends with a nasal sound; the final -s is silent
• accent sounds like ak-san
• aigu sounds like eh-gu or ay-gu depending on how it is explained to English speakers
• grave rhymes roughly with English shove only very approximately; the French vowel is different

A more French-like IPA version is:

• [a lekʁi ʒə kɔ̃fɔ̃ ɑ̃kɔʁ laksɑ̃ eɡy e laksɑ̃ ɡʁav]

Par écrit exists, but it does not mean exactly the same thing here.

• à l’écrit = in writing / in written language
• par écrit = in written form, in writing rather than verbally

Examples:

• Répondez par écrit. = Answer in writing.
• À l’écrit, je fais plus d’erreurs. = In writing, I make more mistakes.

Dans l’écrit is generally not the natural choice here. It sounds more literal and less idiomatic.

So for this sentence, À l’écrit is definitely the best expression.

Yes, very much so.

Because it begins with À l’écrit, the speaker is specifically talking about what happens when writing. They are saying that, even now, they still mix up:

• é / acute accent
• è / grave accent

So this is about written accuracy, not necessarily about how the words are pronounced in speech.

That is why À l’écrit is such an important part of the sentence: it frames the problem as a writing issue.