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augment

aug·ment/ɔɡˈmɛnt/verb, noun

augment is spelled A-U-G-M-E-N-T: 7 letters and 2 syllables (aug·ment). It appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, augment means “To increase; to make larger or supplement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in augment?

Letters7: A-U-G-M-E-N-T
Syllables2: aug·ment
In writing1.5 times per million words; the 22,651st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is augment?

Augment appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 22,651st 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 augment?

  • UK /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/
  • US /ɔɡˈmɛnt/
  • US /ɑɡˈmɛnt/

As a noun (“In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ-…”): /ˈɔːɡmɛnt/, /ˈɔːɡmənt/, /ˈɔɡmɛnt/.

Augment has 2 syllables, split aug·ment in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-GB-augment-verb.ogg, En-au-augment.ogg, En-GB-augment-noun.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with augment?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as augment from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: mutagen.

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 augment

  • augments present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • augmenting participle, present
  • augmented participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does augment mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To increase; to make larger or supplement.

    The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.

  2. 2

    To grow; to increase; to become greater.

  3. 3

    To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.

  4. 4

    To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

  5. 5

    To add an augment to.

noun

  1. 1

    In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.

    The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.

  2. 2

    Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.

  3. 3

    In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.

  4. 4

    An increase.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Augment in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaugmenter (to increase, make larger or supplement), s'accroître, s'agrandir (to become greater), élargir le mouvement (to slow the tempo or meter), augmenter l'intervalle (to increase an interval by a half step), augment (grammar: prefix indicating past tense of verb)
Germanvergrößern, erhöhen, vermehren (to increase, make larger or supplement), wachsen, zunehmen (to become greater), Augment (grammar: prefix indicating past tense of verb)
Portugueseaumentar (to increase, make larger or supplement)
Spanishaumentar, augmentar, embonar, jerarquizar, acrecentar (to increase, make larger or supplement)

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 augment come from?

From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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