anemia

Other forms of anemia

plural

anemias·

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 anemia

What does anemia mean?

anemia means "a deficiency of red blood cells". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anemia?

anemia has 4 syllables: a-ne-mi-a. The stress falls on "ne". In IPA it is /əˈnimiə/.

What is another word for anemia?

Close synonyms include anaemia, anaemia, genus 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 anemia a common word?

anemia 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.