Which to use
“augmentée” and “augmentez” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #10,636
- “augmentée” frequency rank
- #35,818
- “augmentez” frequency rank
- 46454
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | augmentée | augmentez |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier du verbe augmenter. | Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe augmenter. |
Same sound, different letters: augmentée vs augmentez
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 8 letters.
Same sound, different spelling - augmentée / augmentez
This is the hard kind. augmentée and augmentez 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 46454, 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\. augmentez is at rank #35,818, 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 46454, this pair ranks #194,814 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of augmentée vs augmentez
Shared letters: aegmntu. Private to "augmentée": é. Private to "augmentez": z.
"augmentée" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVV · "augmentez" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- augmentez ← agumentez · augemntez · auggmentez · augmenetz · augmenntez · augmentezz · augmenttez · augmentze
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "augmentée" for "augmentez" ever safe?
Frequency check: "augmentée" vs "augmentez" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
"augmentée" and "augmentez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "augmentée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "augmentez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #194,814 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "augmentée" and "augmentez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "augmenta vs augmentez". 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 #194,814 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.