hemochromatosis
he·mo·chro·ma·to·sis/ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˌkɹəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/noun
hemochromatosis is spelled H-E-M-O-C-H-R-O-M-A-T-O-S-I-S, 6 syllables: he·mo·chro·ma·to·sis. The wrong spelling people search most is hemochomatosis: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 625 of all searches for the word. Hemochromatosis is a noun meaning “A metabolic disorder causing iron deposits in the body”. The plural of hemochromatosis is hemochromatoses.
How many letters and syllables are in hemochromatosis?
| Letters | 15: H-E-M-O-C-H-R-O-M-A-T-O-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6: he·mo·chro·ma·to·sis |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 109,062nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hemochomatosis, about 20 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 hemochromatosis?
Hemochromatosis is spelled H-E-M-O-C-H-R-O-M-A-T-O-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 638 of the searches for hemochromatosis 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 hemochromatosis?
Hemochromatosis appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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 hemochromatosis?
- UK /ˌhiːmə(ʊ)ˌkɹəʊməˈtəʊsɪs/
Hemochromatosis has 6 syllables, split he·mo·chro·ma·to·sis in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-hemochromatosis.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with hemochromatosis?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hemochromatosis from its last stressed vowel (/əʊsɪs/, British pronunciation):
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 hemochromatosis
- hemochromatoses plural
- haematochromatosis
- hæmatochromatosis
- hematochromatosis
- haemochromatosis
- hæmochromatosis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hemochromatosis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A metabolic disorder causing iron deposits in the body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hemochromatosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense disorder:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hématochromatose |
| German | Hämochromatose |
| Portuguese | hemocromatose |
| Spanish | hemocromatosis |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hemochromatosis come from?
From hemo- (“blood”) + chromat- (“color”) + -osis (“disease”), from the changing color of blood affected by the disorder.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).