# enhance

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɪnˈhɑːns/ · frequency rank #6,683

## Definitions
1. To 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.
5. To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **entrance** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enhance-vs-entrance)
- **enhanced** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enhance-vs-enhanced)
- **enhancer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enhance-vs-enhancer)

## Common misspellings (11)
`ehnance`, `enahnce`, `enhacne`, `enhancce`, `enhanec`, `enhannce`, `enhence`, `enhhance`, `enhnace`, `ennhance`, `nehance`

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