thrombocytopenia
/ˌθrɒm.bə.sʌɪ.təˈpiːniə/noun
thrombocytopenia is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-C-Y-T-O-P-E-N-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is thrombocypenia: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,000 of all searches for the word. Thrombocytopenia is a noun meaning “An abnormally low number of platelets in the blood”. The plural of thrombocytopenia is thrombocytopenias.
How do you spell thrombocytopenia?
Thrombocytopenia is spelled T-H-R-O-M-B-O-C-Y-T-O-P-E-N-I-A. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 500 of the searches for thrombocytopenia 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.
What does thrombocytopenia mean?
noun
- 1
An abnormally low number of platelets in the blood.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce thrombocytopenia?
- UK /ˌθrɒm.bə.sʌɪ.təˈpiːniə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Scelultrix-thrombocytopenia.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of thrombocytopenia
- thrombocytopenias plural
- thrombocytopaenia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is thrombocytopenia?
Thrombocytopenia appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 71,529th 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).
Thrombocytopenia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense abnormally low platelet count:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | thrombocytopénie |
| German | Thrombozytopenie |
| Portuguese | trombocitopenia |
| Spanish | trombocitopenia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.