# emperor

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈɛmpəɹə/ · frequency rank #4,667

## Definitions
1. The male monarch or ruler of an empire.
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.
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.
9. An emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri).

## Etymology
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.

## Common misspellings (10)
`emepror`, `emmperor`, `empeorr`, `emperorr`, `emperro`, `emperror`, `empperor`, `empreor`, `epmeror`, `meperor`

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