hemophiliac

Questions about hemophiliac

What does hemophiliac mean?

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

How many syllables are in hemophiliac?

hemophiliac has 5 syllables: he-mo-phil-i-ac. The stress falls on "phil". In IPA it is /himəˈfɪliæk/.

What is another word for hemophiliac?

Close synonyms include haemophiliac, bleeder, 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 hemophiliac a common word?

hemophiliac 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.