enmeshed
adjective, verb
enmeshed is an adjective meaning “tangled or twisted together” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-N-M-E-S-H-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does enmeshed mean?
adjective
- 1
tangled or twisted together.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of enmesh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce enmeshed?
Enmeshed has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of enmeshed
- more enmeshed comparative
- most enmeshed superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is enmeshed?
Enmeshed appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,063rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Enmeshed in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | enmarañado, enmallado, mallado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.