emperor
em·pe·ror/ˈɛmp(ə)ɹə/noun
emperor is spelled E-M-P-E-R-O-R, 3 syllables: em·pe·ror. The wrong spelling people search most is emporer: about 590 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Emperor is a noun meaning “The male monarch or ruler of an empire”. The plural of emperor is emperors.
How many letters and syllables are in emperor?
| Letters | 7: E-M-P-E-R-O-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: em·pe·ror |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,667th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, emporer, about 590 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell emperor?
Emperor is spelled E-M-P-E-R-O-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for emperor 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 emperor?
Emperor appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,667th 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 emperor?
- UK /ˈɛmp(ə)ɹə/
- UK /ˈɛmpʰ(ə)ɹə/
- Australia /ˈemp(ə)ɹə/
Emperor has 3 syllables, split em·pe·ror in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-emperor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of emperor
- emperors plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does emperor mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
In imperial China, it was often a responsibility of the emperor to evaluate his predecessor after the latter's death.
- 2
Any monarch ruling an empire, irrespective of gender, with "empress" contrasting to mean the consort of an emperor.
- 3
Specifically, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire; the world-monarch.
The Investiture Controversy was a conflict between the Emperor and the Pope.
- 4
The fourth trump or major arcana card of the tarot deck.
- 5
A large, relatively valuable marble in children's games.
- 6
Any fish of the family Lethrinidae.
- 7
Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Charaxinae.
- 8
Any of various large dragonflies of the cosmopolitan genus Anax.
noun
- 1
The title of an emperor.
- 2
Alternative form of emperor (emperor penguin).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Emperor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense ruler of an empire:
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 emperor come from?
From Middle English emperour, from Anglo-Norman emperour, from Latin imperātorem, derived from imperō (“to command”). Doublet of imperator. Displaced earlier Old English casere, from Latin Caesar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).