amend
/əˈmɛnd/verb, noun
amend is spelled A-M-E-N-D. The wrong spelling people search most is ammend: about 410 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Amend is a verb meaning “To make better; improve”.
How many letters and syllables are in amend?
| Letters | 5: A-M-E-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 13,897th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ammend, about 410 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell amend?
Amend is spelled A-M-E-N-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for amend in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is amend?
Amend appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 13,897th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce amend?
- US /əˈmɛnd/
Amend has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-amend.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with amend
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with amend?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as amend from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: named, deman, maned.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of amend
- amends present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- amending participle, present
- amended participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amend mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To make better; improve.
- 2
To become better.
- 3
obsoleteTo heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
- 4
obsoleteTo be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
- 5
To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.
noun
- 1
An act of righting a wrong; compensation.
- 2
informalClipping of amendment (“alteration or change for the better”).
I've sent over a new version of the doc with some amends.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amend in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | amender |
| German | verbessern, ausbessern , novellieren |
| Portuguese | melhorar , emendar |
| Spanish | remendar, enmendar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does amend come from?
From Middle English amenden, from Old French amender, from Latin ēmendō (“free from faults”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mendum (“fault”). Compare aphetic mend. Doublet of emend.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).