augment
\oɡ.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“augment” is uncommon French (frequency #68,061 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,061
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Portion des biens du mari que la loi permettait de donner à l’épouse survivante dans les pays de droit écrit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-augment · augment · French
augment · rank #68,061 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,061
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avenida
Nearest frequency peer: avenida (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « augment »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- attenantes
attenantes
31,944 corpus weight
- attentiste
attentiste
31,943 corpus weight
- atténuent
atténuent
31,942 corpus weight
- augment
augment
31,940 corpus weight
- avenida
avenida
31,939 corpus weight
- bagarrer
bagarrer
31,938 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « augment » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | augment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \oɡ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,061 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « augment » en français
Rare enough to double-check
augment is uncommon French at frequency #68,061 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \oɡ.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
augment doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is augment, spelled A-U-G-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Portion des biens du mari que la loi permettait de donner à l’épouse survivante dans les pays de droit écrit.
- 2Lettre ou groupe de lettres accolées devant un affixe sans modification de sens.
- 3Addition qui se fait au commencement d’un temps de verbe, dans certaines langues, notamment en grec ou en volapük.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how augment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une complication existait dans ce régime dotal des pays de droit écrit : le mari faisait généralement à sa femme une donation en corrélation avec la dot qu’il recevait : […]. Pendant le mariage, le mari en jouissait comme des biens dotaux ; la femme n’y avait droit qu’en cas de survie. Cet augment devint obligatoire au XIIIᵉ siècle, pour permettre à la fe…
Pour passer de « apte » à « aptitude », on ajoute le suffixe « -ude » et l’augment « -it- ».
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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