enough
/ɪˈnʌf/determiner, adverb, pronoun, interjection, noun
enough is spelled E-N-O-U-G-H. The wrong spelling people search most is enogh: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 74 of all searches for the word. Enough is a determiner meaning “Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on”.
How many letters and syllables are in enough?
| Letters | 6: E-N-O-U-G-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 347 times per million words; the 263rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, enogh, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell enough?
Enough is spelled E-N-O-U-G-H. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for enough in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is enough?
Enough appears 347 times per million words in written English, the 263rd 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).
How do you pronounce enough?
- UK /ɪˈnʌf/
- US /ɪˈnʌf/
- US /i-/
Enough 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). Recordings: En-uk-enough.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-enough.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-enough.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with enough
Also written: enuff.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with enough?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as enough from its last stressed vowel (/ʌf/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of enough
- enow
- anough
- aneuch
- eneuch
- eneugh
- 'nough
- enuf
- enuff
- enough!
- enoughs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does enough mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
Used before a noun in the manner of words like some, a bit of, and so on.
I've already had enough coffee today.
- 2
archaicUsed after a noun.
There is food enough for us all.
adverb
- 1
Sufficiently.
Those pears aren't ripe enough for the children to eat (them).
- 2
Fully; quite; used after adjectives to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very.
He is ready enough to accept the offer.
- 3
Used after certain adverbs to emphasise that a quality is notable, unexpected, etc.
Talking of Mr Smith, funnily enough, I saw him just the other day.
pronoun
- 1
A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
I have enough (of it) to keep me going.
interjection
- 1
Stop! Don't do that any more! It is too much!
Near-synonyms: please, cut it out, knock it off, shut up, STFU
noun
- 1
rareAn instance of being sufficient, or of doing something sufficiently.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate enough?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of enough: elmo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Enough in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | assez , suffisamment , ça suffit !, assez ! |
| German | genug , halt!, das genügt |
| Portuguese | bastante, suficiente , suficientemente , basta!, chega! , o suficiente |
| Spanish | bastante , bastantemente , ¡basta!, es suficiente |
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.
Where does enough come from?
From Middle English ynogh, from Old English ġenōg (“enough”), from Proto-Germanic *ganōgaz (“enough”) (compare Scots eneuch, West Frisian genôch, Dutch genoeg, German genug, Low German (ge)noog, Danish nok, Swedish nog, Icelandic nógur), from *ganuganą 'to suffice' (compare Old English ġeneah), or from *ga- + an unattested *nōgaz, probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂nó(n)ḱe (“he has reached, attained”), perfective of *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”) (compare Old Irish tánaic (“he arrived”), Latin nancisci (“to get”), Albanian kënaq (“to please, satisfy”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).