emacs
/ˈiːmæks/noun
emacs is a noun meaning “Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-M-A-C-S and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of emacs is emacses or emacsen.
What does emacs mean?
noun
- 1
Any implementation or reimplementation of Emacs.
noun
- 1
plural of eMac
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce emacs?
- /ˈiːmæks/
Emacs has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-emacs.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of emacs
- emacses plural
- emacsen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is emacs?
Emacs appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 54,808th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).