Which to use
“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.
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
- augmente ← agumente · augemnte · auggmente · augmenet · augmennte · augmentte · augmetne · augmmente
- augmentent ← agumentent · augemntent · auggmentent · augmenetnt · augmenntent · augmentennt · augmententt · augmentetn
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "augmente" and "augmentent" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "augmente" vs "augmentent" - which ranks higher?
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.