tinea

tinea is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 6 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis.
2. noun. A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.
3. noun. type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths
4. noun. infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches

   Synonyms: ringworm, roundworm

Synonyms

ringworm, roundworm

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tinea:

entia, teian, tenai, tenia

Common word forms

tineas

Words from these letters

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