Emo
[ˈeːmo]
The verdict
“Emo” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #39,306) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #39,306
- frequency rank, German
- 4,632
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Angehöriger einer Untergruppe von Punkern
Corpus desk
Index DE-emo · Emo · German
Emo · rank #39,306 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,306
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,632
- PHOTO-FINISH Elba
Nearest frequency peer: Elba (-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 „Emo“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- eiskalte
eiskalte
60,698 corpus weight
- Elba
Elba
60,696 corpus weight
- Emo
Emo
60,695 corpus weight
- Engelchen
Engelchen
60,694 corpus weight
- entbehrlich
entbehrlich
60,693 corpus weight
- entledigen
entledigen
60,692 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Emo“ 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 | Emo |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈeːmo] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #39,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Emo“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Emo is neighbouring look-alikes ("es", "er", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced [ˈeːmo]. Frequency #39,306 among 4,632 “E” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Emo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "es", "er", "EU", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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. The correct German form is Emo, spelled E-M-O.
Definition
- 1Angehöriger einer Untergruppe von Punkern
- 2depressiver Jugendlicher
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Emo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Er mag die Musik der Emos nicht.
Er ist grad in einer Phase als Emo.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked German headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).