Emmy
[ˈɛmi]
The verdict
“Emmy” sits in 15 confusable pairs (corpus #17,272) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,272
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Emmy Award
Corpus desk
Index DE-emmy · Emmy · German
Emmy · rank #17,272 · 4 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,272
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH electric
Nearest frequency peer: electric (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Emmy“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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82,731 corpus weight
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82,730 corpus weight
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82,729 corpus weight
- entspannte
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82,728 corpus weight
- entspannten
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82,727 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Emmy“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | Emmy |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɛmi] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #17,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Emmy“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Emmy is neighbouring look-alikes ("ey", "Ems", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈɛmi]. Frequency #17,272 among 4,632 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Emmy Award".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Emmy, with forms such as "emmyy", "emy", and "emym". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "ey", "Ems", "Emo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Emmy, spelled E-M-M-Y.
Definition
- 1Emmy Award
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emmyy
- emy
- emym
- memy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Emmy - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).