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: le-u-ka-e-mi-a. The stress falls on "e".

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.