bleeding sickness
"bleeding-sickness" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bleeding sickness” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Any disease, illness, or condition involving loss of blood from the body (e.g. menstruation, hemorrhages, haemophilia, etc.)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bleeding sickness |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bleeding sickness” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bleeding sickness is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any disease, illness, or condition involving loss of blood from the body (e.g. menstruation, hemorrhages, haemophilia, etc.)".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for bleeding sickness, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bleeding (“loss of blood, hemorrhage”) + sickness. The correct English form is bleeding sickness, spelled B-L-E-E-D-I-N-G- -S-I-C-K-N-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Any disease, illness, or condition involving loss of blood from the body (e.g. menstruation, hemorrhages, haemophilia, etc.)
Etymology
From bleeding (“loss of blood, hemorrhage”) + sickness.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “bleeding sickness”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-L-E-E-D-I-N-G- -S-I-C-K-N-E-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.