scarlet fever

1. 1.

   an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash

   Synonymsscarlatina

   Broadercontagious disease

Questions about scarlet fever

What does scarlet fever mean?

scarlet fever means "an acute communicable disease (usually in children) characterized by fever and a red rash".

What is another word for scarlet fever?

Close synonyms include scarlatina. 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 scarlet fever a common word?

scarlet fever 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.