enby
\ɛn.bi\
The verdict
“enby” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-binaire ; qui relève d’une identité de genre ni exclusivement féminine, ni exclusivement masculine, ou ni l’un ni l’autre, en-dehors du concept de la binarité de genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enby · enby · French
enby · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | enby |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛn.bi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
enby is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛn.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-binaire ; qui relève d’une identité de genre ni exclusivement féminine, ni exclusivement masculine, ou ni l’un ni l’autre, en-dehors du concept de la binarité de genre.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for enby, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is enby, spelled E-N-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Non-binaire ; qui relève d’une identité de genre ni exclusivement féminine, ni exclusivement masculine, ou ni l’un ni l’autre, en-dehors du concept de la binarité de genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how enby appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il va donc falloir vous y faire : la non-binarité existe et il est fort probable que vous connaissiez des personnes enby […].
J’ai eu quarante-six ans cette année, et je peux dire que cela fait du bien de voir des plus jeunes, comme Farah entre autres, qui militent pour notre reconnaissance en tant que personnes enby ou bigenres.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.