# envy

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛnvi/ · frequency rank #9,040

## Definitions
1. Resentful desire of something possessed by another or others (but not limited to material possessions).
2. An object of envious notice or feeling.
3. Hatred, enmity, ill-feeling.
4. Emulation; rivalry.
5. Public odium; ill repute.
6. A red-skinned variety of eating apple.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Old French enviebor.
Middle English envie
English envy
From Middle English envie, from Old French envie, from Latin invidia (“envy”), from invidere (“to look at with malice”), from in- (“on, upon”) + videre (“to look, see”). Doublet of envie. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *zavistь (“envy”).
Displaced native Old English æfest.

## Easily confused with
- **EV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/envy-vs-ev)
- **ey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/envy-vs-ey)
- **eve** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/envy-vs-eve)
- **EVA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/envy-vs-eva)
- **evo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/envy-vs-evo)
- **Enzo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/envy-vs-enzo)
- **en** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/en-vs-envy)
- **end** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/end-vs-envy)
- **eng** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eng-vs-envy)
- **Ely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ely-vs-envy)
- **easy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/easy-vs-envy)
- **ends** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ends-vs-envy)
- **eBay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ebay-vs-envy)
- **Emmy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emmy-vs-envy)
- **eddy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eddy-vs-envy)
- **edgy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/edgy-vs-envy)
- **Enid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enid-vs-envy)
- **Enix** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enix-vs-envy)
- **Enos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enos-vs-envy)
- **enjoy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/enjoy-vs-envy)

## Common misspellings (6)
`ennvy`, `envvy`, `envyy`, `enyv`, `evny`, `nevy`

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