# amend

> English word · Verb · IPA /əˈmɛnd/ · frequency rank #13,854

## Definitions
1. To make better; improve.
2. To become better.
3. To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
4. To 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.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **and** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-and)
- **amid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amid)
- **Ames** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-ames)
- **amin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amin)
- **AmEx** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amex)
- **axed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-axed)
- **aren** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-aren)
- **awed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-awed)
- **among** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-among)
- **armed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-armed)
- **arena** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-arena)
- **amino** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amino)
- **arent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-arent)
- **Anand** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-anand)
- **amped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amped)
- **amine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amine)
- **Amina** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amina)
- **attend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-attend)
- **amends** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-amends)
- **ascend** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/amend-vs-ascend)

## Common misspellings (7)
`aemnd`, `amedn`, `amendd`, `amennd`, `ammend`, `amned`, `maend`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/amend