plasmapheresis
noun
plasmapheresis is spelled P-L-A-S-M-A-P-H-E-R-E-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is plasmapharesis: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 24 of all searches for the word. Plasmapheresis is a noun meaning “A procedure in which whole blood is removed from a donor or patient and centrifuged to isolate blood cells…”. The plural of plasmapheresis is plasmaphereses.
How many letters and syllables are in plasmapheresis?
| Letters | 14: P-L-A-S-M-A-P-H-E-R-E-S-I-S |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, plasmapharesis, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell plasmapheresis?
Plasmapheresis is spelled P-L-A-S-M-A-P-H-E-R-E-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 24 of the searches for plasmapheresis 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 plasmapheresis?
Plasmapheresis appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th 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).
Forms of plasmapheresis
- plasmaphereses plural
- plasmaphoresis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does plasmapheresis mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A procedure in which whole blood is removed from a donor or patient and centrifuged to isolate blood cells that are resuspended in a compatible solution and re-injected into the donor or patient.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does plasmapheresis come from?
From New Latin plasma + Ancient Greek ἀφαίρεσις (aphaíresis, “removal”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).