hematoxylin
/ˌhiməˈtɑksɪlɪn/noun
hematoxylin is spelled H-E-M-A-T-O-X-Y-L-I-N. The wrong spelling people search most is hematoxilin: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 22 of all searches for the word. Hematoxylin is a noun meaning “A phenolic compound having the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₄O₆, used (most often in conjunction with eosin) to make…”. The plural of hematoxylin is hematoxylins.
How do you spell hematoxylin?
Hematoxylin is spelled H-E-M-A-T-O-X-Y-L-I-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 22 of the searches for hematoxylin 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 hematoxylin mean?
noun
- 1
A phenolic compound having the chemical formula C₁₆H₁₄O₆, used (most often in conjunction with eosin) to make dye for staining tissue samples; extracted from the heart of bloodwood trees (Haematoxylum campechianum).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hematoxylin?
- UK /ˌhiːməˈtɒksɪlɪn/
- US /ˌhiməˈtɑksɪlɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hematoxylin
- hematoxylins plural
- haematoxylin
- hemotoxylin
- hematoxylene
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hematoxylin?
Hematoxylin appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Where does hematoxylin come from?
From Haematoxylum (“genus of the logwood tree”) + -in.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).