ringworm

Other forms of ringworm

plural

ringworms·

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 ringworm

What does ringworm mean?

ringworm means "infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches".

How many syllables are in ringworm?

ringworm has 2 syllables: rin-gworm. The stress falls on "rin".

What is another word for ringworm?

Close synonyms include tinea, roundworm. 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 ringworm a common word?

ringworm 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.