enemyhood

noun

"enemyhood" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“enemyhood” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of enemyship.

Corpus desk

Index EN-enemyhood · enemyhood · English

enemyhood · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "E" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for enemyhood
PropertyValue
Headwordenemyhood
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “enemyhood” in English

enemyhoodranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

enemyhood is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of enemyship.".

Zero misspellings are on record for enemyhood in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From enemy + -hood. The correct English form is enemyhood, spelled E-N-E-M-Y-H-O-O-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Synonym of enemyship.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how enemyhood appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. In order to further reconstruct the local history of violence and enemyhood, I now turn to one of these other neighborhoods in the Udahenagama area.
  2. So Wendt's contention can be restated as follows: no state identity of enemyhood without the Hobbesian international culture and no Hobbesian international culture without the state identity of enemyhood, logically.

Etymology

From enemy + -hood.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "enemyhood"?
"enemyhood" is spelled E-N-E-M-Y-H-O-O-D.
What does "enemyhood" mean?
As a noun, "enemyhood" means: Synonym of enemyship.
What is the origin of the word "enemyhood"?
From enemy + -hood. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list