pinworm
noun
pinworm is a noun meaning “Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-I-N-W-O-R-M, and it appears about once in every 65 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pinworm is pinworms.
What does pinworm mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pinworm?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pinworm.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pinworm
- pinworms plural
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How common is pinworm?
Pinworm 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).
Pinworm in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense worms:
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Where does pinworm come from?
From pin + worm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).