ennemie
\ɛn.mi\
The verdict
“ennemie” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,165. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,165
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme qui nous est hostile, ou à qui l’on est hostile.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ennemie · ennemie · French
ennemie · rank #13,165 · 7 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,165
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH endettement
Nearest frequency peer: endettement (-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 « ennemie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- déplore
déplore
86,839 corpus weight
- endettement
endettement
86,837 corpus weight
- ennemie
ennemie
86,836 corpus weight
- entra
entra
86,835 corpus weight
- espions
espions
86,834 corpus weight
- exprimée
exprimée
86,833 corpus weight
What this shows « ennemie » 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 | ennemie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛn.mi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ennemie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around ennemie (IPA \ɛn.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,165 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for ennemie, with forms such as "enemie", "enenmie", and "enneime". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "ennuie", "ennemis", "ennemies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 ennemie, spelled E-N-N-E-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Femme qui nous est hostile, ou à qui l’on est hostile.
- 2Par extension, chose hostile, ou supposée telle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ennemie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chacun finit par se moquer effrontément des prétendues grandes qualités de celle qui devint ainsi l’ennemie des Sancerroises.
On remarqua beaucoup, à Plassans, une série d’attaques dirigées par le fils contre les personnes que le père recevait chaque soir dans le fameux salon jaune. La richesse des Roudier et des Granoux exaspérait Aristide au point de lui faire perdre toute prudence. Poussé par ses aigreurs jalouses d’affamé, il s’était fait de la bourgeoisie une ennemie irréco…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- enemie
- enenmie
- enneime
- ennemei
- ennemmie
- ennmeie
- nenemie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ennemie - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).