haemophilia

Other forms of haemophilia

plural

haemophilias·

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 haemophilia

What does haemophilia mean?

haemophilia means "congenital tendency to uncontrolled bleeding; usually affects males and is transmitted from mother to son".

How many syllables are in haemophilia?

haemophilia has 6 syllables: ha-e-mo-phi-li-a. The stress falls on "phi".

What is another word for haemophilia?

Close synonyms include hemophilia, bleeder's disease. 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 haemophilia a common word?

haemophilia 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.