haemophile

Questions about haemophile

What does haemophile mean?

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

How many syllables are in haemophile?

haemophile has 5 syllables and divides as ha-e-mo-phi-le 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 haemophile?

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

haemophile is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.