tinea pedis

1. 1.

   fungal infection of the feet

   Synonymsathlete's foot

   Broadertinea

Questions about tinea pedis

What does tinea pedis mean?

tinea pedis means "fungal infection of the feet".

What is another word for tinea pedis?

Close synonyms include athlete's foot. 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 tinea pedis a common word?

tinea pedis 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.