anaemia

Other forms of anaemia

plural

anaemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about anaemia

What does anaemia mean?

anaemia means "a lack of vitality". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anaemia?

anaemia has 5 syllables: a-na-e-mi-a. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for anaemia?

Close synonyms include anemia, anemia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is anaemia a common word?

anaemia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.