Which to use
“augmentée” and “augmenter” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,636
- “augmentée” frequency rank
- #1,900
- “augmenter” frequency rank
- 12536
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | augmentée | augmenter |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe augmenter. | Rendre une quantité plus grande. |
Same sound, different letters: augmentée vs augmenter
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - augmentée and augmenter
This is the hard kind. augmentée and augmenter are pronounced identically (\oɡ.mɑ̃.te\) 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 share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 12536, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
augmentée is recorded at frequency rank #10,636, classified as averb, pronounced \oɡ.mɑ̃.te\. augmenter is at rank #1,900, tagged as averb, pronounced \oɡ.mɑ̃.te\.
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 12536, this pair ranks #404,847 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of augmentée vs augmenter
Shared letters: aegmntu. Private to "augmentée": é. Private to "augmenter": r.
"augmentée" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVV · "augmenter" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- augmenter ← agumenter · augemnter · auggmenter · augmenetr · augmennter · augmenterr · augmentre · augmentter
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "augmentée" for "augmenter" ever safe?
Which is more common, "augmentée" or "augmenter"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "augmentée" / "augmenter". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "augmentée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "augmenter" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #404,847 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "augmentée" and "augmenter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "augmenta vs augmentée". 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 #404,847 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.