# Emily

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #5,678

## Definitions
1. A female given name from Latin.

## Etymology
English form of Latin Aemilia, a gens name from aemulus (“rival, emulator”).

## Easily confused with
- **evil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-evil)
- **Emmy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-emmy)
- **emit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-emit)
- **emir** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-emir)
- **Emin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-emin)
- **empty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-empty)
- **exile** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-exile)
- **evils** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-evils)
- **employ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-employ)
- **enmity** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emily-vs-enmity)
- **Ely** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ely-vs-emily)
- **Emil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emil-vs-emily)
- **early** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/early-vs-emily)
- **email** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/email-vs-emily)
- **emery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emery-vs-emily)
- **easily** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/easily-vs-emily)
- **Emilia** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/emilia-vs-emily)
- **eerily** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/eerily-vs-emily)

## Common misspellings (7)
`eimly`, `emilly`, `emilyy`, `emiyl`, `emliy`, `emmily`, `meily`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/emily