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haemoglobin

/ˌhimoʊˈɡloʊbɪn/noun

haemoglobin is spelled H-A-E-M-O-G-L-O-B-I-N: 11 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, haemoglobin means “Alternative spelling of hemoglobin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of haemoglobin is haemoglobins.

How many letters and syllables are in haemoglobin?

Letters11: H-A-E-M-O-G-L-O-B-I-N
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 68,248th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is haemoglobin?

Haemoglobin appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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 haemoglobin?

  • US /ˌhimoʊˈɡloʊbɪn/
  • US /ˈhiməˌɡloʊbɪn/
  • UK /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˈɡləʊbɪn/

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

What rhymes with haemoglobin?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as haemoglobin from its last stressed vowel (/oʊbɪn/):

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 haemoglobin

  • haemoglobins plural

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

What does haemoglobin mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    CommonwealthAlternative spelling of hemoglobin.

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

Where does haemoglobin come from?

From haemo- + globin.

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

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