enjoyvsentryTell them apart

Quick tell: enjoy is a verb, entry is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“enjoy” is a verb and “entry” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#36,288
“enjoy” frequency rank
#31,525
“entry” frequency rank
67813
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature enjoy entry
Definition genießen Zugang, Zutritt, Einreise

Letter map: enjoy vs entry

Shared letters muted; letters that set enjoy and entry apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
enjoy
5 ch
entry

Part-of-speech tell for enjoy / entry

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: enjoy is averb and entryanoun. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 67813, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

enjoy is recorded at frequency rank #36,288, classified as averb, pronounced […]. entry is at rank #31,525, tagged as anoun, pronounced [ˈentri].

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 67813, this pair ranks #527,950 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of enjoy vs entry

Shared letters: eny. Private to "enjoy": jo. Private to "entry": rt.

"enjoy" · 5 letters · shape VCCVV  ·  "entry" · 5 letters · shape VCCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • enjoyejnoy · enjjoy · enjoyy · enjyo · ennjoy · enojy · nejoy
  • entryenntry · enrty · entrry · entryy · enttry · entyr · etnry · netry

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "enjoy" and "entry" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "enjoy" is a verb and "entry" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "enjoy" or "entry" show up more?
"entry" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #31,525 in our German list, against #36,288 for "enjoy". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "enjoy" vs "entry" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "enjoy" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "entry" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #527,950 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "enjoy" and "entry" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "enjoy vs puzzles". 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 #527,950 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list