emulación
[emulaˈsjõn]
The verdict
“emulación” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #50,219 among 5,243 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,219
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5,243
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Imitación de las cualidades o acciones de otro, con interés en igualarlas o incluso excederlas.
Corpus desk
Index ES-emulacion · emulación · Spanish
emulación · rank #50,219 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,219
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,243
- PHOTO-FINISH empeñada
Nearest frequency peer: empeñada (-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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “emulación”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- emoticones
emoticones
49,785 corpus weight
- empacho
empacho
49,784 corpus weight
- empeñada
empeñada
49,783 corpus weight
- emulación
emulación
49,782 corpus weight
- encadenada
encadenada
49,781 corpus weight
- enfocamos
enfocamos
49,779 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “emulación” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emulación |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [emulaˈsjõn] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #50,219 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “emulación” en español
Rare enough to double-check
emulación is uncommon Spanish at frequency #50,219 among 5,243 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [emulaˈsjõn]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for emulación, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is emulación, spelled E-M-U-L-A-C-I-Ó-N.
Definition
- 1Imitación de las cualidades o acciones de otro, con interés en igualarlas o incluso excederlas.
- 2Ejecución de un programa diseñado para un sistema diferente, simulando las partes de ese sistema.
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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