emargunate, and the vowel that is barely there
schwaEmarginate has one stressed syllable, MAR, and four unstressed ones. Those four vowels are all reduced in speech and all guessable in writing.
heard asemargunate
spelledemarginate
saidee-MAR-jin-ut
It is an i. emarginate.
Say the word at normal speed and that syllable takes almost no time at all. A u is an honest attempt at a sound that has been squeezed down to nothing, and it is still the wrong letter, because the syllable is the -gin- of margin.
Nearby in the file
emargenate emarginat emerginate emarrginate emarginute emarjinate
The rest are on the word page. All 11 spellings of emarginate.