leukemia
/luːˈkiːmi.ə/
"leukemia" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“leukemia” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #15,851. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,851
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
Corpus desk
Index EN-leukemia · leukemia · English
leukemia · rank #15,851 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #15,851
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH ketchup
Nearest frequency peer: ketchup (-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 “leukemia”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Keepers
Keepers
84,153 corpus weight
- Kendrick
Kendrick
84,152 corpus weight
- ketchup
ketchup
84,151 corpus weight
- leukemia
leukemia
84,150 corpus weight
- Levine
Levine
84,149 corpus weight
- lineage
lineage
84,147 corpus weight
What this shows “leukemia” 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 | leukemia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /luːˈkiːmi.ə/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “leukemia”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around leukemia (IPA /luːˈkiːmi.ə/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,851 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for leukemia, with forms such as "elukemia", "lekuemia", and "leuekmia". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "leukaemia", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- + -emia. The correct English form is leukemia, spelled L-E-U-K-E-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1Any of a class of types of cancer affecting the blood cells, especially the white blood cells (usually with massive leukocytosis), and the blood cell–forming (hematopoietic) tissues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how leukemia appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The subjects suffered from lymphoblastic and myeloid leukemias.
In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.
Etymology
From German Leukämie, from Ancient Greek λευκός (leukós, “white”) + αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, leuk- + -emia.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- elukemia
- lekuemia
- leuekmia
- leukeima
- leukemai
- leukemmia
- leukkemia
- leukmeia
- lleukemia
- luekemia
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of leukemia - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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