hodgkin

Other forms of hodgkin

plural

hodgkins·

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 hodgkin

What does hodgkin mean?

hodgkin means "English physician who first described Hodgkin's disease (1798-1866)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hodgkin?

hodgkin has 2 syllables: hodg-kin. The stress falls on "hodg". In IPA it is /ˈhɑdʒkɪn/.

What is another word for hodgkin?

Close synonyms include Thomas Hodgkin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin, Alan Hodgkin, Sir Alan Hodgkin. 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 hodgkin a common word?

hodgkin 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.