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erythrocyte

/əˈɹɪθɹəˌsaɪt/noun

erythrocyte is a noun meaning “A hemoglobin-containing cell, especially as found in humans but more generally present in the blood of most vertebrates, that is involved with the…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-R-Y-T-H-R-O-C-Y-T-E, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of erythrocyte is erythrocytes.

What does erythrocyte mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A hemoglobin-containing cell, especially as found in humans but more generally present in the blood of most vertebrates, that is involved with the transport of oxygen; such cells are usually anucleate in humans and many other animals.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce erythrocyte?

  • /əˈɹɪθɹəˌsaɪt/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-erythrocyte.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of erythrocyte

  • erythrocytes plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is erythrocyte?

Erythrocyte appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 84,254th 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).

Erythrocyte in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense scientific name for red blood cell – see also red blood cell:

LanguageWords
Frenchérythrocyte
GermanErythrozyt
Portugueseeritrócito
Spanisheritrocito

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 erythrocyte come from?

From erythro- (“red”) + -cyte (“cell”), referring to the red color of hemoglobin when oxygen is bound to it.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).