ena
\ˈeno̯\
The verdict
“ena” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,710) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,710
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Contraction de la préposition en et de l'article défini era.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ena · ena · French
ena · rank #20,710 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,710
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH enlevées
Nearest frequency peer: enlevées (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ena »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- déplacées
déplacées
79,295 corpus weight
- embarqués
embarqués
79,293 corpus weight
- ena
ena
79,291 corpus weight
- enlevées
enlevées
79,290 corpus weight
- envahissent
envahissent
79,289 corpus weight
- esquiver
esquiver
79,288 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ena » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ena |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \ˈeno̯\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #20,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ena »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ena is neighbouring look-alikes ("et", "Eu", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \ˈeno̯\. Frequency #20,710 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Contraction de la préposition en et de l'article défini era.".
ena doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "et", "Eu", "ez", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ena, spelled E-N-A.
Definition
- 1Contraction de la préposition en et de l'article défini era.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).