bleeder

Questions about bleeder

What does bleeder mean?

bleeder means "someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding".

How many syllables are in bleeder?

bleeder has 2 syllables and divides as blee-der under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bleeder?

Close synonyms include hemophiliac, haemophiliac, hemophile, haemophile. 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 bleeder a common word?

bleeder 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.