angelology
/eɪnd͡ʒəˈlɒləd͡ʒi/noun
angelology is a noun meaning “The study of angels. Angels have been grouped into nine categories or “choirs,” from lowest to highest: angel, archangel, principality, power…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-G-E-L-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of angelology is angelologies.
What does angelology mean?
noun
- 1
The study of angels. Angels have been grouped into nine categories or “choirs,” from lowest to highest: angel, archangel, principality, power, virtue, dominion, throne, cherub, and seraph.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce angelology?
- UK /eɪnd͡ʒəˈlɒləd͡ʒi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-angelology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of angelology
- angelologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is angelology?
Angelology appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Angelology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense study of angels:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | angélologie |
| German | Angelologie |
| Portuguese | angelologia |
| Spanish | angelología |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does angelology come from?
From angel + -ology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).