emption
"emption" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“emption” is uncommon English (frequency #77,641 among 2,246 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,641
- frequency rank, English
- 2,246
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of buying; purchase.
Corpus desk
Index EN-emption · emption · English
emption · rank #77,641 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,641
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,246
- PHOTO-FINISH emptier
Nearest frequency peer: emptier (-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 “emption”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- eidolon
eidolon
22,366 corpus weight
- emerg
emerg
22,362 corpus weight
- emptier
emptier
22,361 corpus weight
- emption
emption
22,360 corpus weight
- enforceabil…
enforceability
22,357 corpus weight
- enunciate
enunciate
22,354 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “emption” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emption |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “emption” in English
Rare enough to double-check
emption is uncommon English at frequency #77,641 among 2,246 “E” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The act of buying; purchase.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for emption, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”). The correct English form is emption, spelled E-M-P-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act of buying; purchase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how emption appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There is a diſpute among the lawyers, whe ther Glaucus's exchanging the golden armour with the brazen one of Tydides, was emption or commutation.
After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
Etymology
From Latin emptio, from emere (“to buy”).
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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