leukaemia

Other forms of leukaemia

plural

leukaemias·

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 leukaemia

What does leukaemia mean?

leukaemia means "malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer".

How many syllables are in leukaemia?

leukaemia has 6 syllables and divides as le-u-ka-e-mi-a 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 leukaemia?

Close synonyms include leukemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood. 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 leukaemia a common word?

leukaemia 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.