impetiginous

1. 1.

   of or relating to or having impetigo

Questions about impetiginous

What does impetiginous mean?

impetiginous means "of or relating to or having impetigo".

How many syllables are in impetiginous?

impetiginous has 5 syllables and divides as im-pe-ti-gi-nous 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.

Is impetiginous a common word?

impetiginous 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.