seborrhea
noun
seborrhea is a noun meaning “A skin disorder causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-B-O-R-R-H-E-A, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of seborrhea is seborrheas.
What does seborrhea mean?
noun
- 1
A skin disorder causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of seborrhea
- seborrheas plural
- seborrhoea
- seborrhœa
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is seborrhea?
Seborrhea appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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).
Seborrhea in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense skin disorder:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | seborreia |
| Spanish | seborrea |
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.
Where does seborrhea come from?
From seb(um) + -o- + -rrhea.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).