The words accept and except really don’t have much in common other than their pronunciations. Unlike other words that share similar pronunciations—say affect/effect—accept vs. except really are two distinct and separate words.
This makes it all the more important that you keep these two words separate from each other in your writing because they have very different meanings and confusing the two can lead to sloppy writing. In this post, I want to go over the definitions of both of these words, how to tell them apart, and give you a few tricks so you can remember the difference.