enemy

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The verdict

“enemy” is uncommon German (frequency #52,059 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#52,059
frequency rank, German
4,632
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Feind

Corpus desk

Index DE-enemy · enemy · German

enemy · rank #52,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #52,059
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,632
  • PHOTO-FINISH endenden

Nearest frequency peer: endenden (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „enemy“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „enemy“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for enemy
PropertyValue
Headwordenemy
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#52,059
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „enemy“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).enemyfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „endenden“ (#52,058), „entnehme“ (#52,060), „entnervt“ (#52,061). Unter 4,632 „E“-Lemmata liegt „enemy“ bei #52,059. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

enemy is uncommon German at frequency #52,059 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Feind".

No misspelling variants are generated for enemy in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is enemy, spelled E-N-E-M-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Feind

Antonyms

friend

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enemy"?
"enemy" is spelled E-N-E-M-Y. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "enemy" mean?
As a noun, "enemy" means: Feind
How do you pronounce "enemy"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "enemy" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "enemy" come from?
"enemy" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enemy", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Edikt#52,040Detox#52,020garen#52,098groot#52,132

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list