Enns
[ɛns]
The verdict
“Enns” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #35,161) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #35,161
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - der österreichische Fluss Enns
Corpus desk
Index DE-enns · Enns · German
Enns · rank #35,161 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,161
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Elmshorn
Nearest frequency peer: Elmshorn (-2 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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Enns“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Ekstase
Ekstase
64,844 corpus weight
- Elbphilharm…
Elbphilharmonie
64,843 corpus weight
- Elmshorn
Elmshorn
64,842 corpus weight
- Enns
Enns
64,840 corpus weight
- entsendet
entsendet
64,838 corpus weight
- entzündete
entzündete
64,837 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Enns“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Enns |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɛns] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #35,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Enns“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Enns is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "ESS", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ɛns]. Frequency #35,161 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "der österreichische Fluss Enns".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Enns, with forms such as "ennss", "ens", and "ensn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "ESS", "eos", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct German form is Enns, spelled E-N-N-S.
Definition
- 1der österreichische Fluss Enns
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Enns appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Enns ist ein Nebenfluss der Donau.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ennss
- ens
- ensn
- nens
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Enns - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).