leukaemia
"leukaemia" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leukaemia” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #38,941. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,941
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of leukemia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leukaemia · leukaemia · English
leukaemia · rank #38,941 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #38,941
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Leyte
Nearest frequency peer: Leyte (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “leukaemia”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- landlocked
landlocked
61,064 corpus weight
- latterly
latterly
61,063 corpus weight
- leaner
leaner
61,062 corpus weight
- leukaemia
leukaemia
61,060 corpus weight
- Leyte
Leyte
61,059 corpus weight
- licensure
licensure
61,058 corpus weight
What this shows “leukaemia” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | leukaemia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “leukaemia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around leukaemia, anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,941 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative spelling of leukemia.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for leukaemia, with forms such as "elukaemia", "lekuaemia", and "leuakemia". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "leukemia", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is leukaemia, spelled L-E-U-K-A-E-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of leukemia.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leukaemia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
1979, Medical Association of South Africa, South African Medical Journal, Volume 55, Issues 1-14, page 9, On the other hand, adult respiratory distress syndrome is a prominent complication in patients with acute leukaemia and to this must be added the whole spectrum of opportunistic infections.
1992, Charles L. Sawyers, The bcr-abl Gene in Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia, Owen N. Witte (editor), Cancer Surveys, Volume 15: Oncogenes in the Development of Leukaemia, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, page 37, The molecular biologists′ vision that the cloning of the chromosomal translocations found in human leukaemias would lead to the identificati…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elukaemia
- lekuaemia
- leuakemia
- leukaeima
- leukaemai
- leukaemmia
- leukameia
- leukeamia
- leukkaemia
- lleukaemia
- luekaemia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leukaemia - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "leukaemia", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).