eosinophilic
adjective
eosinophilic is spelled E-O-S-I-N-O-P-H-I-L-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is eosiniphilic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 37 of all searches for the word. Eosinophilic is an adjective meaning “That is readily stained with eosin”.
How many letters and syllables are in eosinophilic?
| Letters | 12: E-O-S-I-N-O-P-H-I-L-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 8 million words; the 85,266th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, eosiniphilic, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell eosinophilic?
Eosinophilic is spelled E-O-S-I-N-O-P-H-I-L-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 37 of the searches for eosinophilic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is eosinophilic?
Eosinophilic appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce eosinophilic?
Eosinophilic has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of eosinophilic
- more eosinophilic comparative
- most eosinophilic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does eosinophilic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
That is readily stained with eosin.
- 2
Of, pertaining to an eosinophil or to eosinophilia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Eosinophilic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense readily stained with eosin:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | eosinofílico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does eosinophilic come from?
From eosin + -o- + -philic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).