enemy

Other forms of enemy

plural

enemies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enemy

What does enemy mean?

enemy means "an opposing military force". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enemy?

enemy has 3 syllables: en-e-my. The stress falls on "en". In IPA it is /ˈɛnəmi/.

What is another word for enemy?

Close synonyms include foe, foeman, opposition, foe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enemy a common word?

enemy is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.