athlete's foot

1. 1.

   fungal infection of the feet

   Synonymstinea pedis

   Broadertinea

Questions about athlete's foot

What does athlete's foot mean?

athlete's foot means "fungal infection of the feet".

What is another word for athlete's foot?

Close synonyms include tinea pedis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is athlete's foot a common word?

athlete's foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.