impétigo
Spanish, noun/imˈpetiɡo/
impétigo is spelled I-M-P-É-T-I-G-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish, the 138,166th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impétigo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “impetigo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Infección de la piel causada por bacterias estreptococos, se caracteriza por la aparición de vesículas o…”.
What does impétigo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimpetigo
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Infección de la piel causada por bacterias estreptococos, se caracteriza por la aparición de vesículas o ampollas en la piel, que al romperse originan costras de color miel (melicéricas).
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of impétigo
- impétigos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impétigo?
- /imˈpetiɡo/
- [ĩmˈpe.t̪i.ɣ̞o]
- [ĩmˈpet̪iɣ̞o]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to impétigo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is impétigo in Spanish?
impétigo appears about once in every 14 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).