émirat

\e.mi.ʁa\

/\e.mi.ʁa\/ noun

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The verdict

“émirat” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,672
frequency rank, French
1,805
“É” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Territoire gouverné par un émir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-emirat · émirat · French

émirat · rank #36,672 · 9 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,672
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,805
  • PHOTO-FINISH énumération

Nearest frequency peer: énumération (+2 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « émirat »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « émirat » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

émirat vs émit
67% similar
émirat vs émirats
86% similar
émirat vs émir
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for émirat
PropertyValue
Headwordémirat
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\e.mi.ʁa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#36,672
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « émirat »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).émiratse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « énumération » (#36,674), « épuisées » (#36,675), « éclipses » (#36,668). Parmi 1,805 lemmes en « É », « émirat » est au #36,672. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around émirat (IPA \e.mi.ʁa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,672 among 1,805 “É” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Territoire gouverné par un émir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for émirat, with forms such as "emirat", "méirat", and "éimrat". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "émit", "émirats", "émir", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is émirat, spelled É-M-I-R-A-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Territoire gouverné par un émir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how émirat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Notre société fait 80 % de son chiffre d’affaires aux Émirats arabes unis.
  2. La bataille pour la libération du Koweït a lieu dans l’émirat mais également au sud de l’Irak.

This word in other languages

emirate(English)Emirat(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • emirat
  • méirat
  • éimrat
  • émiart
  • émiratt
  • émirrat
  • émirta
  • émmirat
  • émriat

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of émirat - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

emirat1méirat2éimrat2émiart2émiratt1émirrat1émirta2émmirat1
Edit distance from "émirat"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "émirat"?
"émirat" is spelled É-M-I-R-A-T. The IPA pronunciation is \e.mi.ʁa\.
What does "émirat" mean?
As a noun, "émirat" means: Territoire gouverné par un émir.
What words are commonly confused with "émirat"?
"émirat" is commonly confused with "émit", "émirats", "émir". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "émirat"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "émirat" is \e.mi.ʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "émirat" come from?
"émirat" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "émirat", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ébloui#36,667wilder#36,660agréée#36,692violés#36,651

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Villard9 variantsvident9 variantsveston9 variantsanglet9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list