vaginosis
noun
vaginosis is a noun meaning “Any disease or infection of the vagina” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-A-G-I-N-O-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of vaginosis is vaginoses.
What does vaginosis mean?
noun
- 1
Any disease or infection of the vagina.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of vaginosis
- vaginoses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is vaginosis?
Vaginosis appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Vaginosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense infection of the vagina:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vaginose |
| German | Vaginose |
| Portuguese | vaginose |
| Spanish | vaginosis |
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 vaginosis come from?
From vagina + -osis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).