E-mail or email?
e-mail is a noun meaning “Alternative form of email”; email is a noun meaning “A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network…”. e-mail is written with a hyphen and email as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between e-mail and email?
| Part of speech | noun, verb | noun, verb |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Alternative form of email | A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet… The quantity of messages sent through an email system To send an email or emails to |
| Example | none recorded | He sent me his details via email |
| Forms | e-mails | emails |
| Pronunciation | /ˈiːmeɪl/ | /ˈiːmeɪl/ /ˈiˌmeɪl/ /ɛˈmeɪl/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 48 times per million words |
Sources: e-mail and email in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of e-mail and email
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Alternative form of email
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Alternative form of email
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A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and the Internet Message Format
He sent me his details via email
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To send an email or emails to
She emailed me last week, asking about the status of the project
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The quantity of messages sent through an email system
I am searching through my old email
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To send (data) through email
I’ll email you the link
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A message being sent through email
He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting
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To send, or compose and then send, one or more emails
Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web
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informalAn email address
What’s your email?
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, e-mail or email?
e-mail is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; email 48 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search e-mail vs email?
“e-mail vs email” is searched about 260 times a month on Google and 20 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“email vs e-mail”, “e-mail or email”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.