hypoxia

Other forms of hypoxia

plural

hypoxias·

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 hypoxia

What does hypoxia mean?

hypoxia means "oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency".

How many syllables are in hypoxia?

hypoxia has 4 syllables: hy-pox-i-a. The stress falls on "pox". In IPA it is /haɪˈpɑksiə/.

Is hypoxia a common word?

hypoxia 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.