enemy
\ˈɛn.ə.mi\
The verdict
“enemy” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,870
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ennemi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-enemy · enemy · French
enemy · rank #47,870 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,870
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endettée
Nearest frequency peer: endettée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « enemy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ely
ely
52,135 corpus weight
- emménagement
emménagement
52,134 corpus weight
- enchanteres…
enchanteresse
52,133 corpus weight
- endettée
endettée
52,132 corpus weight
- enemy
enemy
52,131 corpus weight
- enroulement
enroulement
52,130 corpus weight
What this shows « enemy » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | enemy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛn.ə.mi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #47,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « enemy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around enemy (IPA \ˈɛn.ə.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,870 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ennemi.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for enemy, with forms such as "eenmy", "enemmy", and "enemyy". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "every", "enjoy", "ennemi", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is enemy, spelled E-N-E-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Ennemi.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eenmy
- enemmy
- enemyy
- eneym
- enmey
- ennemy
- neemy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of enemy - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "enemy", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).