emular
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#28,353
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
emular is aSpanishverb. It means: Imitar las acciones de otra persona procurando igualarle y aún excederle. Se toma, por lo común, en buena parte. Pronounced [emuˈlaɾ]. Often confused with educar and emplear.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emular |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [emuˈlaɾ] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #28,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for emular is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [emuˈlaɾ]. Corpus data places it at rank #28,353 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for emular, with forms such as "emluar", "emmular", and "emualr". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "educar", "emplear", "empujar", 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 emular, spelled E-M-U-L-A-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Imitar las acciones de otra persona procurando igualarle y aún excederle. Se toma, por lo común, en buena parte.
- 2Hacer que una cosa tenga una similitud notable con otra, a tal punto de volverse casi indistinguibles.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: emluar,emmular,emualr,emularr,emullar,emulra,eumlar,meular
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for emular
Misspelling Variants of "emular"
Frequency rank: #28,353 in Spanish
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