Which to use
“augmenter” and “augmentés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #1,900
- “augmenter” frequency rank
- #29,650
- “augmentés” frequency rank
- 31550
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | augmenter | augmentés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Rendre une quantité plus grande. | Participe passé masculin pluriel du verbe augmenter. |
Same sound, different letters: augmenter vs augmentés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - augmenter and augmentés
This is the hard kind. augmenter and augmentés 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 31550, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
augmenter is recorded at frequency rank #1,900, classified as averb, pronounced \oɡ.mɑ̃.te\. augmentés is at rank #29,650, 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 31550, this pair ranks #303,098 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of augmenter vs augmentés
Shared letters: aegmntu. Private to "augmenter": r. Private to "augmentés": sé.
"augmenter" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVC · "augmentés" · 9 letters · shape VVCCVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- augmenter ← agumenter · augemnter · auggmenter · augmenetr · augmennter · augmenterr · augmentre · augmentter
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "augmenter" and "augmentés" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "augmenter" or "augmentés" show up more?
Useful next steps
You've separated the homophone pair "augmenter" / "augmentés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "augmenter" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "augmentés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #303,098 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "augmenter" and "augmentés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "augmenta vs augmentés". 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 #303,098 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.