emit
/iˈmɪt/verb
emit is spelled E-M-I-T. The wrong spelling people search most is emmit: about 270 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Emit is a verb meaning “To send out or give off”.
How many letters and syllables are in emit?
| Letters | 4: E-M-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, emmit, about 270 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
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 emit?
Emit is spelled E-M-I-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for emit 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 emit?
Emit appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 emit?
- /iˈmɪt/
- /ɪˈmɪt/
- /ˈɛmɪʈ/
Emit has 2 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-emit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with emit?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as emit.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: time, item, mite.
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 emit
- emits present, singular, he/she/it
- emitting participle, present
- emitted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does emit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To send out or give off.
I just emitted a giggle.
- 2
To come out, to be sent out or given off.
- 3
To result in specific machine instructions or bytecode when compiled.
- 4
To produce specific computer code when processed or executed.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Emit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to send out or give off:
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 emit come from?
Borrowed from Latin ēmittō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).