Enz
[ɛnt͡s]
The verdict
“Enz” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,842) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,842
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ein Fluss in Deutschland, Nebenfluss des Neckars
Corpus desk
Index DE-enz · Enz · German
Enz · rank #43,842 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,842
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH entrichtet
Nearest frequency peer: entrichtet (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Enz“
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What this shows Balken platzieren „Enz“ 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 | Enz |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ɛnt͡s] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #43,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Enz“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Enz is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "er", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ɛnt͡s]. Frequency #43,842 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "ein Fluss in Deutschland, Nebenfluss des Neckars".
No misspelling variants are generated for Enz in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "er", "EU", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Enz, spelled E-N-Z.
Definition
- 1ein Fluss in Deutschland, Nebenfluss des Neckars
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Enz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pforzheim ist die einzige Großstadt an der Enz.
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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