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“augmente” and “augmentent” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#3,054
“augmente” frequency rank
#8,337
“augmentent” frequency rank
11391
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature augmente augmentent
Definition Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter. Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter.

Same sound, different letters: augmente vs augmentent

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.

8 ch
augmente
10 ch
augmentent

Ear matches; page differs - augmente and augmentent

This is the hard kind. augmente and augmentent are pronounced identically (\oɡ.mɑ̃t\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 2 extra letter(s) - “augmente” sits inside “augmentent”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 11391, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

augmente is recorded at frequency rank #3,054, classified as averb, pronounced \oɡ.mɑ̃t\. augmentent is at rank #8,337, tagged as averb, pronounced \oɡ.mɑ̃t\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 11391, this pair ranks #409,323 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of augmente vs augmentent

Shared letters: aegmntu. Private to "augmente": -. Private to "augmentent": -.

"augmente" · 8 letters · shape VVCCVCCV  ·  "augmentent" · 10 letters · shape VVCCVCCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • augmenteagumente · augemnte · auggmente · augmenet · augmennte · augmentte · augmetne · augmmente
  • augmententagumentent · augemntent · auggmentent · augmenetnt · augmenntent · augmentennt · augmententt · augmentetn

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "augmente" and "augmentent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They are pronounced the same (\oɡ.mɑ̃t\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
Frequency check: "augmente" vs "augmentent" - which ranks higher?
"augmente" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #3,054 in our French list, against #8,337 for "augmentent". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.

  • Full dictionary entry for "augmente" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "augmentent" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #409,323 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "augmente" and "augmentent" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "augmentent vs augmenteront". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #409,323 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list