empt
"empt" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“empt” is uncommon English (frequency #63,594 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,594
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To empty.
Corpus desk
Index EN-empt · empt · English
empt · rank #63,594 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,594
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH Emiliano
Nearest frequency peer: Emiliano (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “empt”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Eliezer
Eliezer
36,411 corpus weight
- Elis
Elis
36,410 corpus weight
- Emiliano
Emiliano
36,408 corpus weight
- empt
empt
36,407 corpus weight
- endorser
endorser
36,405 corpus weight
- Enniskillen
Enniskillen
36,404 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “empt” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | empt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “empt” in English
Rare enough to double-check
empt is uncommon English at frequency #63,594 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To empty.".
empt doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is empt, spelled E-M-P-T.
Definition
- 1To empty.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how empt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Because under all the Obligations and Causes herein, the Church ought to empt the Sees of such Incumbents, that are dangerous to the Civil State, by Acts of Separation properly Ecclesiastical, and so it doth; the Dean and Chapter of the Metropolitical Church taking the Jurisdiction, till the Chapter elect, and Bishops consecrate another, &c.
or, still un-happier, has it gone the way of every copy of its elder brother the Mentz Donatus, of which scarcely a fragment, a ci gít, remains to bless the eyes and empt the pockets of the curious and " keen collector ?."
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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