exsanguination
/ɛkˌsæŋɡwɪˈneɪʃən/noun
exsanguination is spelled E-X-S-A-N-G-U-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. The wrong spelling people search most is exanguination: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Exsanguination is a noun meaning “Bloodletting”. The plural of exsanguination is exsanguinations.
How many letters and syllables are in exsanguination?
| Letters | 14: E-X-S-A-N-G-U-I-N-A-T-I-O-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 27 million words; the 157,761st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, exanguination, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell exsanguination?
Exsanguination is spelled E-X-S-A-N-G-U-I-N-A-T-I-O-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for exsanguination 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 exsanguination?
Exsanguination appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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 exsanguination?
- US /ɛkˌsæŋɡwɪˈneɪʃən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-exsanguination.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with exsanguination?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as exsanguination from its last stressed vowel (/eɪʃən/):
- situation
- association
- population
- administration
- operation
- organization
- application
- location
- generation
- foundation
- conversation
- investigation
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of exsanguination
- exsanguinations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does exsanguination mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Bloodletting.
- 2
Hemorrhage.
- 3
Slaughter of an animal by cutting its throat and allowing it to bleed out, especially for the production of halal and kosher meat.
- 4
The process of draining the blood of an animal.
- 5
Excessive loss of blood due to hemorrhage.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does exsanguination come from?
From exsanguinate + -ion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).