augmentéesvsaugmenterConfusable pair

Which to use

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

#39,165
“augmentées” frequency rank
#1,900
“augmenter” frequency rank
41065
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature augmentées augmenter
Definition Participe passé féminin pluriel du verbe augmenter. Rendre une quantité plus grande.

Same sound, different letters: augmentées vs augmenter

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

10 ch
augmentées
9 ch
augmenter

Homophone desk: augmentées vs augmenter

This is the hard kind. augmentées 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 differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 41065, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

augmentées is recorded at frequency rank #39,165, 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 41065, this pair ranks #235,784 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of augmentées vs augmenter

Shared letters: aegmntu. Private to "augmentées": . Private to "augmenter": r.

"augmentées" · 10 letters · shape VVCCVCCVVC  ·  "augmenter" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • augmenteragumenter · augemnter · auggmenter · augmenetr · augmennter · augmenterr · augmentre · augmentter

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "augmentées" for "augmenter" ever safe?
No. They are pronounced the same (\oɡ.mɑ̃.te\), which is exactly why they get swapped in writing, but the dictionary meanings above are different, and pronunciation is no guide here.
In ordinary French text, does "augmentées" or "augmenter" show up more?
"augmenter" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,900 in our French list, against #39,165 for "augmentées". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

What to do next

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

  • Full dictionary entry for "augmentées" 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 #235,784 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "augmentées" and "augmenter" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "augmentées 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 #235,784 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