vaccinia
noun
vaccinia is a noun meaning “An infection of cowpox” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-C-C-I-N-I-A and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaccinia is vaccinias.
What does vaccinia mean?
noun
- 1
An infection of cowpox.
- 2
A virus which causes this infection (Orthpoxvirus vaccinia).
- 3
A closely related poxvirus, used as a smallpox vaccine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce vaccinia?
Vaccinia has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vaccinia
- vaccinias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vaccinia?
Vaccinia appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 118,441st 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 vaccinia come from?
From Latin vaccinus + -ia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).