impétigo
French, noun/ɛ̃.pe.ti.ɡo/
impétigo is spelled I-M-P-É-T-I-G-O (8 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Impétigo is a French masculine noun meaning “impetigo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Infection cutanée, superficielle, streptococcique ou staphylococcique, contagieuse, autoinoculable et non…”.
What does impétigo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineimpetigo
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Infection cutanée, superficielle, streptococcique ou staphylococcique, contagieuse, autoinoculable et non immunisante, caractérisée par la formation de pustules laissant échapper un liquide qui se durcit en croûtes jaunâtres.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of impétigo
- impétigos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce impétigo?
- /ɛ̃.pe.ti.ɡo/
- \ɛ̃.pe.ti.ɡo\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (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 French?
impétigo appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).