enrich
/ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/verb
enrich is spelled E-N-R-I-C-H: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, enrich means “To enhance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in enrich?
| Letters | 6: E-N-R-I-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is enrich?
Enrich appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,589th 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 enrich?
- /ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/
Enrich 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-enrich.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with enrich?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as enrich.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: incher, richen.
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 enrich
- enriches present, singular, he/she/it
- enriching participle, present
- enriched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does enrich mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To enhance.
- 2
To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
Hobbies enrich lives.
- 3
To adorn, ornate more richly.
- 4
To add nutrients or fertilizer to the soil; to fertilize.
- 5
To increase the amount of one isotope in a mixture of isotopes, especially in a nuclear fuel.
- 6
To add nutrients to foodstuffs; to fortify.
- 7
To make to rise the proportion of a given constituent.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Enrich in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | enrichir |
| German | bereichern , anreichern |
| Portuguese | enriquecer |
| Spanish | enriquecer |
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 enrich come from?
From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- + rich.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).