Ema
[ˈema]
The verdict
“Ema” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #32,632) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #32,632
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nombre de pila de mujer.
Corpus desk
Index ES-ema · Ema · Spanish
Ema · rank #32,632 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,632
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH embarcar
Nearest frequency peer: embarcar (+1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “Ema”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- ebriedad
ebriedad
67,372 corpus weight
- Eliseo
Eliseo
67,371 corpus weight
- Ema
Ema
67,369 corpus weight
- embarcar
embarcar
67,368 corpus weight
- encaminado
encaminado
67,365 corpus weight
- encíclica
encíclica
67,364 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “Ema” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | Ema |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈema] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #32,632 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “Ema”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Ema is neighbouring look-alikes ("en", "ex", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced [ˈema]. Frequency #32,632 among 5,243 “E” headwords. Gloss: "Nombre de pila de mujer.".
Ema doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "en", "ex", "et", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Spanish form is Ema, spelled E-M-A.
Definition
- 1Nombre de pila de mujer.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).