emphasise
"emphasise" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“emphasise” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #26,410. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,410
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - British standard spelling of emphasize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-emphasise · emphasise · English
emphasise · rank #26,410 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,410
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH emphatically
Nearest frequency peer: emphatically (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “emphasise”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- ejection
ejection
73,595 corpus weight
- electrolyte
electrolyte
73,594 corpus weight
- elitist
elitist
73,593 corpus weight
- emphasise
emphasise
73,591 corpus weight
- emphatically
emphatically
73,590 corpus weight
- equine
equine
73,588 corpus weight
What this shows “emphasise” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emphasise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #26,410 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “emphasise”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around emphasise, averb. Corpus frequency is #26,410 among 2,246 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "British standard spelling of emphasize.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for emphasise, with forms such as "emhpasise", "emmphasise", and "empahsise". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "emphasize", "emphasized", "emphasis", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is emphasise, spelled E-M-P-H-A-S-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1British standard spelling of emphasize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how emphasise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emhpasise
- emmphasise
- empahsise
- emphaisse
- emphasies
- emphasisse
- emphassie
- emphassise
- emphhasise
- emphsaise
- empphasise
- epmhasise
- mephasise
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of emphasise - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "emphasise", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).