dermatitis

Other forms of dermatitis

plural

dermatitises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dermatitis

What does dermatitis mean?

dermatitis means "inflammation of the skin; skin becomes itchy and may develop blisters".

How many syllables are in dermatitis?

dermatitis has 4 syllables: der-ma-ti-tis. The stress falls on "ti". In IPA it is /ˌdɝməˈtaɪtɪs/.

Is dermatitis a common word?

dermatitis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.