Emily
"emily" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Emily” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,678. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,678
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from Latin.
Corpus desk
Index EN-emily · Emily · English
Emily · rank #5,678 · 7 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,678
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Eddie
Nearest frequency peer: Eddie (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Emily”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- duration
duration
94,325 corpus weight
- Eddie
Eddie
94,324 corpus weight
- Emily
Emily
94,323 corpus weight
- encouraging
encouraging
94,322 corpus weight
- farms
farms
94,321 corpus weight
- fifteen
fifteen
94,320 corpus weight
What this shows “Emily” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Emily |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,678 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Emily”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around Emily, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #5,678 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A female given name from Latin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Emily, with forms such as "eimly", "emilly", and "emilyy". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "evil", "Emmy", "emit", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, emulator”). The correct English form is Emily, spelled E-M-I-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A female given name from Latin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Emily appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1380s-1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale I am thy mortal foe, and it am I That so hot loveth Emily the bright, That I would die here present in her sight.
People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily, in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming Emilys
Etymology
English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, emulator”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eimly
- emilly
- emilyy
- emiyl
- emliy
- emmily
- meily
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Emily - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Emily", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).