# enrich

> English word · Verb · IPA /ɪnˈɹɪt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #19,584

## Definitions
1. To enhance.
2. To make (someone or something) rich or richer.
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.

## Etymology
From Middle English enrichen, from Anglo-Norman enrichir and Old French enrichier. By surface analysis, en- + rich.

## Easily confused with
- **eric** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-eric)
- **Erica** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-erica)
- **Erich** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-erich)
- **Erick** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-erick)
- **entice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-entice)
- **Enrico** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-enrico)
- **Enright** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enrich-vs-enright)
- **Enoch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enoch-vs-enrich)
- **Ehrlich** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ehrlich-vs-enrich)

## Common misspellings (9)
`enirch`, `ennrich`, `enrcih`, `enricch`, `enrichh`, `enrihc`, `enrrich`, `ernich`, `nerich`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/enrich