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vaginitis

noun

vaginitis is a noun meaning “Inflammation of the vagina” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-G-I-N-I-T-I-S, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaginitis is vaginitides or vaginitises.

What does vaginitis mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Inflammation of the vagina.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce vaginitis?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-vaginitis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of vaginitis

  • vaginitides plural
  • vaginitises plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vaginitis?

Vaginitis appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).

Vaginitis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense inflammation of the vagina:

LanguageWords
Frenchvaginite
GermanVaginitis, Scheidenentzündung
Spanishvaginitis

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 vaginitis come from?

From vagin- + -itis.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).