# entry

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛntɹi/ · frequency rank #2,152

## Definitions
1. The act of entering.
2. Permission to enter.
3. A doorway that provides a means of entering a building.
4. The act of taking possession.
5. The start of an insurance contract.
6. A passageway between terraced houses that provides a means of entering a back garden or yard.
7. A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms
8. A small group formed within a church, especially Episcopal, for simple dinner and fellowship, and to help facilitate new friendships
9. An item in a list, such as an article in a dictionary or encyclopedia.
10. A record made in a log, diary or anything similarly organized; (computing) a datum in a database.
11. A term at any position in a matrix.
12. The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure licence to land goods; or the giving an account of a ship's cargo to the officer of the customs, and obtaining his permission to land the goods.
13. The point when a musician starts to play or sing; entrance.
14. The introduction of new hounds into a pack.

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English entre, from Old French entree (feminine past participle of the verb entrer, Modern French entrée). From Latin intrō. Doublet of entrada and entrée.

## Easily confused with
- **envy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entry-vs-envy)
- **every** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entry-vs-every)
- **envoy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entry-vs-envoy)
- **enjoy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enjoy-vs-entry)
- **enter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enter-vs-entry)
- **enemy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enemy-vs-entry)
- **emery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emery-vs-entry)
- **entre** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entre-vs-entry)
- **energy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/energy-vs-entry)
- **entire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entire-vs-entry)
- **entity** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entity-vs-entry)
- **enters** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enters-vs-entry)
- **eatery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eatery-vs-entry)
- **entropy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/entropy-vs-entry)

## Common misspellings (8)
`enntry`, `enrty`, `entrry`, `entryy`, `enttry`, `entyr`, `etnry`, `netry`

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