emission
/ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/noun
emission is spelled E-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is emmision: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 17 of all searches for the word. Emission is a noun meaning “Something which is emitted or sent out; issue”. The plural of emission is emissions.
How many letters and syllables are in emission?
| Letters | 8: E-M-I-S-S-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.0 times per million words; the 11,198th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, emmision, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell emission?
Emission is spelled E-M-I-S-S-I-O-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for emission in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is emission?
Emission appears 5.0 times per million words in written English, the 11,198th 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).
How do you pronounce emission?
- US /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/
- /ˈe.mɪ.ʃən/
Emission has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-emission.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with emission?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as emission from its last stressed vowel (/ɪʃən/):
- position
- competition
- opposition
- permission
- composition
- acquisition
- coalition
- physician
- politician
- admission
- nutrition
- expedition
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of emission
- emissions plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does emission mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
the emission was mostly blood
- 2
The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
the emission of light from the sun
- 3
A show; a program.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Emission in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense something that is emitted:
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 emission come from?
First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ēmissiō (“sending forth”), from ēmittō (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mittō (“send”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).