intertrigo

1. 1.

   chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)

   Broaderchafing

Other forms of intertrigo

plural

intertrigoes·

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 intertrigo

What does intertrigo mean?

intertrigo means "chafing between two skin surfaces that are in contact (as in the armpit or under the breasts or between the thighs)".

How many syllables are in intertrigo?

intertrigo has 4 syllables: in-ter-tri-go. The stress falls on "ter".

Is intertrigo a common word?

intertrigo 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.