emoji
e·mo·ji/ɪˈmoʊ.d͡ʒi/noun
emoji is spelled E-M-O-J-I: 5 letters and 3 syllables (e·mo·ji). It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, emoji means “A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of emoji is emojis.
How many letters and syllables are in emoji?
| Letters | 5: E-M-O-J-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: e·mo·ji |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is emoji?
Emoji appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 emoji?
- UK /ɪˈməʊ.dʒi/
- US /ɪˈmoʊ.d͡ʒi/
- US /iˈmoʊ.d͡ʒi/
Emoji has 3 syllables, split e·mo·ji in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-ca-emoji.opus, En-au-emoji.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with emoji?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as emoji from its last stressed vowel (/oʊdʒi/):
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 emoji
- emojis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does emoji mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A digital graphic icon with a unique code point used to represent a concept, object, person, animal or place, originally used in Japanese text messaging but since adopted internationally in other contexts such as social media.
- 2
Any non-standard emoji-like image inserted inline in text, e.g. an image emoticon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate emoji?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of emoji: moji.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Emoji in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense digital graphic icon:
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 emoji come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 絵文字(えもじ) (emoji), from 絵(え) (e, “picture”) + 文字(もじ) (moji, “character”). False cognate of English emotion and emoticon.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).