There’s more than one way to add an accent in macOS. The easiest way to throw a fancy circonflexe or accent grave to your words is to hold down the letter on your keyboard.

How to type an acute accent on your Mac. To type a grave accent, press Option and the letter e together, let go the keys and then press the letter you wish to accentuate: á, é, í, ó, ú.

The grave accent has even been borrowed by Maltese spelling. Hence, it is incorrect to print certain words without an accent, as in carità/karità, qualità/kwalità, verità, cafè/kafè, Andrè ...