emplea

/[ẽmˈplea]/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#7,302

in Spanish word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

15

similar word pairs

emplea is aSpanishnoun. It means: Empleo o mercaderías en que se gasta el dinero para comerciar. Pronounced [ẽmˈplea]. It ranks #7,302 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with empleo and empuja.

Key facts for emplea
PropertyValue
Headwordemplea
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA[ẽmˈplea]
Letters6
Frequency rank#7,302
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of emplea in Spanish word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Spanish entry for emplea is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ẽmˈplea]. Corpus data places it at rank #7,302 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Empleo o mercaderías en que se gasta el dinero para comerciar.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for emplea, with forms such as "emlpea", "emmplea", and "empela". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "empleo", "empuja", "emplee", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is emplea, spelled E-M-P-L-E-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Empleo o mercaderías en que se gasta el dinero para comerciar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: emlpea,emmplea,empela,emplae,empllea,empplea,epmlea,meplea

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emplea

Misspelling Variants of "emplea"

emlpea6emmplea7empela6emplae6empllea7empplea7epmlea6meplea6
Misspelling Variants of "emplea"

Frequency rank: #7,302 in Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "emplea"?
"emplea" is spelled E-M-P-L-E-A. The IPA pronunciation is [ẽmˈplea].
What does "emplea" mean?
As a noun, "emplea" means: Empleo o mercaderías en que se gasta el dinero para comerciar.
What words are commonly confused with "emplea"?
"emplea" is commonly confused with "empleo", "empuja", "emplee". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "emplea"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "emplea" is [ẽmˈplea]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "emplea" come from?
"emplea" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.