ema
"ema" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ema” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,373) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,373
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ema · ema · English
ema · rank #32,373 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,373
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Electra
Nearest frequency peer: Electra (-3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “ema”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- dynamical
dynamical
67,633 corpus weight
- Electra
Electra
67,631 corpus weight
- ema
ema
67,628 corpus weight
- enquire
enquire
67,625 corpus weight
- ensue
ensue
67,624 corpus weight
- environs
environs
67,623 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “ema” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | ema |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,373 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “ema”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ema is neighbouring look-alikes ("ex", "et", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #32,373 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Gloss: "A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ema, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ex", "et", "EU", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Japanese 絵馬 (ema). The correct English form is ema, spelled E-M-A.
Definition
- 1A wooden plaque bearing a prayer or wish, left hanging at a Shinto shrine.
Etymology
From Japanese 絵馬 (ema).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).