ennemi
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,223
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
ennemi is aFrenchnoun. It means: Concept antagoniste, en conflit avec un autre. Pronounced \ɛn.mi\. It ranks #2,223 in French word frequency. Often confused with ennui and ennemis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ennemi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.mi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ennemi is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛn.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,223 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for ennemi, with forms such as "enemi", "enenmi", and "enneim". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "ennui", "ennemis", "ennemie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ennemi, spelled E-N-N-E-M-I, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Concept antagoniste, en conflit avec un autre.
- 2Celui, celle qui veut du mal à quelqu’un.
- 3Le diable ; le démon. Souvent capitalisé en Ennemi.
- 4Nation armée avec laquelle une autre nation est en guerre.
- 5Personne, groupe de personnes ou sentiment intérieur contre qui ou contre quoi l'on combat.
- 6C’est autant de pris sur l’ennemi : C’est toujours avoir obtenu quelque avantage, avoir tiré quelque parti d’une mauvaise affaire.
- 7Personne qui éprouve de l’aversion pour des choses bonnes ou mauvaises, justes ou injustes.
- 8Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien. → voir mieux
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: enemi,enenmi,enneim,ennemmi,ennmei,nenemi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ennemi
Misspelling Variants of "ennemi"
Frequency rank: #2,223 in French
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