hemophilia
noun
hemophilia is a noun meaning “US standard spelling of haemophilia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-E-M-O-P-H-I-L-I-A and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hemophilia is hemophilias.
What does hemophilia mean?
noun
- 1
USUS standard spelling of haemophilia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hemophilia?
- US
Hemophilia has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-hemophilia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hemophilia
- hemophilias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hemophilia?
Hemophilia appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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 hemophilia come from?
From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: hemo- + -philia; more at haemophilia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).