hematoma

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The English entry for hematoma is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌhiməˈtoʊmə/. Corpus data places it at rank #46,512 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A swelling of blood, usually clotted, which forms as a result of broken blood vessels.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for hematoma, with forms such as "ehmatoma", "heamtoma", and "hemaotma". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From hemato- + -oma. Among the many words derived from -oma that are in current common use, this word is one of only a few that do not denote a neoplasm; another is granuloma. Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is hematoma, spelled H-E-M-A-T-O-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.