emend
/ɪˈmɛnd/verb
emend is a verb meaning “To correct and revise (text or a document)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-M-E-N-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does emend mean?
verb
- 1
To correct and revise (text or a document).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce emend?
- US /ɪˈmɛnd/
Emend has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-emend.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of emend
- emends present, singular, he/she/it
- emending participle, present
- emended participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is emend?
Emend appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Words people confuse with emend
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Emend in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to correct and revise:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | emendieren |
| Spanish | emendar, enmendar, remendar |
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 emend come from?
From Middle English emenden, from Latin ēmendō (“to free from fault”), from ex- (“out”) + mendum (“fault, blemish”). Doublet of amend.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).