erythropoietin
/ɪˌɹɪθɹəˈpɔɪ.ɪtɪn/noun
erythropoietin is spelled E-R-Y-T-H-R-O-P-O-I-E-T-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is erythropoitin: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 139 of all searches for the word. Erythropoietin is a noun meaning “A glycoprotein hormone that functions as a cytokine for erythrocyte precursors in bone marrow”. The plural of erythropoietin is erythropoietins.
How do you spell erythropoietin?
Erythropoietin is spelled E-R-Y-T-H-R-O-P-O-I-E-T-I-N. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 70 of the searches for erythropoietin 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.
What does erythropoietin mean?
noun
- 1
A glycoprotein hormone that functions as a cytokine for erythrocyte precursors in bone marrow.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce erythropoietin?
- /ɪˌɹɪθɹəˈpɔɪ.ɪtɪn/
Erythropoietin has 5 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-erythropoietin.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of erythropoietin
- erythropoietins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is erythropoietin?
Erythropoietin appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 88,353rd 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 abbreviate erythropoietin?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of erythropoietin: EPO, Epo.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Erythropoietin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a hormone:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | érythropoïétine |
| German | Erythropoietin |
| Spanish | eritropoyetina |
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 erythropoietin come from?
From Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós, “red”) and ποιητής (poiētḗs, “creator, maker”) and -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).