enhance
/ɪnˈhæns/verb
enhance is spelled E-N-H-A-N-C-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, enhance means “To augment or make something greater” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in enhance?
| Letters | 7: E-N-H-A-N-C-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is enhance?
Enhance appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 enhance?
- UK /ɪnˈhɑːns/
- UK /ɛnˈhɑːns/
- US /ɪnˈhæns/
Enhance 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: En-GB-enhance.ogg, En-us-enhance.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with enhance?
9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as enhance from its last stressed vowel (/æns/):
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 enhance
- enhances present, singular, he/she/it
- enhancing participle, present
- enhanced participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does enhance mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo lift, raise up.
- 2
To augment or make something greater.
- 3
To improve something by adding features.
- 4
To be raised up; to grow larger.
A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
- 5
To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Enhance in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | augmenter, accroître , améliorer |
| German | erhöhen, vergrößern, ergänzen, verstärken , verbessern, meliorisieren |
| Portuguese | aumentar , melhorar |
| Spanish | embonar, jerarquizar, acrecentar, aventajar , realzar |
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 enhance come from?
From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).