haem
/hiːm/noun
haem is a noun meaning “Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of heme” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-E-M, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of haem is haems.
What does haem mean?
noun
- 1
Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of heme.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce haem?
- UK /hiːm/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-haem.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of haem
- haems plural
- hæm-
- hem-
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is haem?
Haem 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).