folliculitis

1. 1.

   inflammation of a hair follicle

   Broaderinflammation

Other forms of folliculitis

plural

folliculitises·

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 folliculitis

What does folliculitis mean?

folliculitis means "inflammation of a hair follicle".

How many syllables are in folliculitis?

folliculitis has 5 syllables and divides as fol-li-cu-li-tis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.