emanate
/ˈɛm.əˌneɪt/verb
emanate is spelled E-M-A-N-A-T-E. The wrong spelling people search most is eminate: about 350 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Emanate is a verb meaning “To come from a source; issue from”.
How many letters and syllables are in emanate?
| Letters | 7: E-M-A-N-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 52,337th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, eminate, about 350 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell emanate?
Emanate is spelled E-M-A-N-A-T-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for emanate in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is emanate?
Emanate appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 52,337th 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).
How do you pronounce emanate?
- US /ˈɛm.əˌneɪt/
Emanate has 3 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-us-emanate.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with emanate?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as emanate (/ɛməneɪt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: manatee.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of emanate
- emanates present, singular, he/she/it
- emanating participle, present
- emanated participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does emanate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To come from a source; issue from.
Fragrance emanates from flowers.
- 2
rareTo send or give out; emit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Emanate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (intransitive) To come from a source:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | émaner |
| German | ausstrahlen |
| Spanish | emanar, manar |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does emanate come from?
From Latin ēmānāre (“to flow out, spring out of, arise, proceed from”), from ē (“out”) + mānāre (“to flow”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).