augmentatif
\oɡ.mɑ̃.ta.tif\
The verdict
“augmentatif” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui augmente.
Corpus desk
Index FR-augmentatif · augmentatif · French
augmentatif · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | augmentatif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \oɡ.mɑ̃.ta.tif\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « augmentatif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
augmentatif is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \oɡ.mɑ̃.ta.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for augmentatif in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is augmentatif, spelled A-U-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Qui augmente.
- 2Qui renforce le sens, en parlant de préfixes ou de suffixes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how augmentatif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
par- et re- sont des préfixes augmentatifs dans parfaire, parsemer, rechercher, ressentir, etc
-asse est un suffixe augmentatif dans bonasse, milliasse, écrivasser.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.