emery

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The English entry for emery is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈɛməɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #19,583 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An impure type of corundum, often used for sanding or polishing.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for emery, with forms such as "eemry", "emerry", and "emeryy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "ever", "Emmy", "emir", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From French émeri, from Old French esmeril, from Italian smeriglio. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is emery, spelled E-M-E-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.