augmente

/\oɡ.mɑ̃t\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#3,054

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

12

similar word pairs

augmente is aFrenchverb. It means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter. Pronounced \oɡ.mɑ̃t\. It ranks #3,054 in French word frequency. Often confused with augmenter and augmentée.

Key facts for augmente
PropertyValue
Headwordaugmente
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\oɡ.mɑ̃t\
Letters8
Frequency rank#3,054
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of augmente in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for augmente is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \oɡ.mɑ̃t\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,054 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for augmente, with forms such as "agumente", "augemnte", and "auggmente". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "augmenter", "augmentée", "augmentés", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is augmente, spelled A-U-G-M-E-N-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe augmenter.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe augmenter.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe augmenter.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: agumente,augemnte,auggmente,augmenet,augmennte,augmentte,augmetne,augmmente,augmnete,aumgente,uagmente

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for augmente

Misspelling Variants of "augmente"

agumente8augemnte8auggmente9augmenet8augmennte9augmentte9augmetne8augmmente9
Misspelling Variants of "augmente"

Frequency rank: #3,054 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "augmente"?
"augmente" is spelled A-U-G-M-E-N-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \oɡ.mɑ̃t\.
What does "augmente" mean?
As a verb, "augmente" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter.
What words are commonly confused with "augmente"?
"augmente" is commonly confused with "augmenter", "augmentée", "augmentés". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "augmente"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "augmente" is \oɡ.mɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "augmente" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.