Archaeological or archeological?
archaeological is an adjective meaning “Relating to the science or research of archaeology”; archeological is an adjective meaning “Alternative spelling of archaeological”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) archaeological is about 5.6 times as common as archeological.
What is the difference between archaeological and archeological?
| archaeological | archeological | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective | adjective |
| Meaning | Relating to the science or research of archaeology | CanadaUSAlternative spelling of archaeological |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words | about once in every 1 million words |
Sources: archaeological and archeological in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of archaeological and archeological
archaeological
- 1
Relating to the science or research of archaeology
archeological
- 1
CanadaUSAlternative spelling of archaeological
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, archaeological or archeological?
archaeological appears 4.8 times per million words; archeological about once in every 1 million words.
archaeological 4.8 times per million wordsarcheological about once in every 1 million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search archaeological vs archeological?
“archaeological vs archeological” is searched about 10 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
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