folliculitis
noun
folliculitis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of one or more hair follicles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-L-L-I-C-U-L-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of folliculitis is folliculitides.
What does folliculitis mean?
noun
- 1
Inflammation of one or more hair follicles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of folliculitis
- folliculitides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is folliculitis?
Folliculitis appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
Folliculitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense inflammation of one or more hair follicles:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | folliculite |
| Spanish | foliculitis |
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.