blood transfusion
"blood-transfusion" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blood transfusion” 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 September 3, 2026) - The act or process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously; an instance of it.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blood-transfusion · blood transfusion · English
blood transfusion · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blood transfusion |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blood transfusion” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blood transfusion is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for blood transfusion in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is blood transfusion, spelled B-L-O-O-D- -T-R-A-N-S-F-U-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1The act or process of transferring blood products into a person's circulation intravenously; an instance of it.
- 2A refreshing or reinvigoration of something.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blood transfusion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A blood transfusion stabilized her condition until surgery to stop her internal bleeding could begin.
Our extramural sports program was on life support until a generous philanthropic donation gave it a much-needed blood transfusion.
This word in other languages
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.