hemolysis
"hemolysis" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hemolysis” is uncommon English (frequency #90,537 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,537
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hemolysis · hemolysis · English
hemolysis · rank #90,537 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,537
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH henhouse
Nearest frequency peer: henhouse (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “hemolysis”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hedonist
hedonist
9,468 corpus weight
- hele
hele
9,466 corpus weight
- hemolysis
hemolysis
9,464 corpus weight
- henhouse
henhouse
9,463 corpus weight
- hepatocyte
hepatocyte
9,462 corpus weight
- Hicksville
Hicksville
9,461 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hemolysis” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hemolysis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #90,537 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hemolysis” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hemolysis is uncommon English at frequency #90,537 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for hemolysis, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hemo- + -lysis, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + λύσις (lúsis, “loosening”). The correct English form is hemolysis, spelled H-E-M-O-L-Y-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.
Etymology
From hemo- + -lysis, from Ancient Greek αἷμα (haîma, “blood”) + λύσις (lúsis, “loosening”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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