emerg
/iːˈməɹd͡ʒ/
"emerg" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“emerg” is uncommon English (frequency #77,639 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,639
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The emergency department of a hospital.
Corpus desk
Index EN-emerg · emerg · English
emerg · rank #77,639 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,639
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH emptier
Nearest frequency peer: emptier (+1 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.
Long-tail ranks near “emerg”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- eHealth
eHealth
22,367 corpus weight
- eidolon
eidolon
22,366 corpus weight
- emerg
emerg
22,362 corpus weight
- emptier
emptier
22,361 corpus weight
- emption
emption
22,360 corpus weight
- enforceabil…
enforceability
22,357 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “emerg” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emerg |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /iːˈməɹd͡ʒ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #77,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “emerg” in English
Rare enough to double-check
emerg is uncommon English at frequency #77,639 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /iːˈməɹd͡ʒ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The emergency department of a hospital.".
emerg doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Clipping of emergency. The correct English form is emerg, spelled E-M-E-R-G.
Definition
- 1The emergency department of a hospital.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emerg appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These EMS people, who should just walk into the emerg, drop their patient off, and then leave, are frozen in the emerg for a long period of time, because there aren't enough resources there.
“Rather than going to emerg and getting admitted and having the condition over a period of time, we understand that the event happened fairly quickly.
Etymology
Clipping of emergency.
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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