émulo
Spanish, noun
émulo is spelled É-M-U-L-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish, the 178,154th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Émulo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “rival, competitor” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, emulo is a different word: “first-person singular present indicative of emular”. With an accent, emuló is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of emular”.
What does émulo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerival, competitor
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of emular
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of emular
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que compite con alguien, tratando de igualarlo o sobrepasarlo. Por lo común, se toma en buena parte. 2. Que es enemigo de los logros o la gloria de alguien.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of émulo
- émulos plural
- émula feminine
- émulas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to émulo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is émulo in Spanish?
émulo appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).