intertrigo
/ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈtɹaɪ.ɡəʊ/noun
intertrigo is a noun meaning “Chafing or dermatitis occurring between two folds of skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-T-R-I-G-O, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of intertrigo is intertrigos or intertrigines.
What does intertrigo mean?
noun
- 1
Chafing or dermatitis occurring between two folds of skin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce intertrigo?
- /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈtɹaɪ.ɡəʊ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of intertrigo
- intertrigos plural
- intertrigines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is intertrigo?
Intertrigo appears about once in every 65 million words in written English, the 252,559th 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).
Where does intertrigo come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin intertrīgō.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).