anthropology
/ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/noun
anthropology is spelled A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-L-O-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is anthropolgy: about 860 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 29 of all searches for the word. Anthropology is a noun meaning “The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and…”. The plural of anthropology is anthropologies.
How many letters and syllables are in anthropology?
| Letters | 12: A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, anthropolgy, about 860 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell anthropology?
Anthropology is spelled A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-L-O-G-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 29 of the searches for anthropology in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is anthropology?
Anthropology appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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).
How do you pronounce anthropology?
- UK /ˌænθɹəˈpɒləd͡ʒi/
- US /ˌænθɹəˈpɑləd͡ʒi/
Anthropology has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-anthropology.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with anthropology?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as anthropology from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlədʒi/):
- technology
- psychology
- biology
- apology
- ideology
- methodology
- sociology
- geology
- ecology
- terminology
- mythology
- physiology
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of anthropology
- anthropologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does anthropology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The scientific study of humans, systematically describing the ethnographic, linguistic, archaeological, and evolutionary dimensions of humanity using a holistic methodological framework.
According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.
- 2
The study of humanity in its relation to the divine, as in Christian anthropology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate anthropology?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of anthropology: anth., anthrop, anthrop., anthropol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Anthropology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the study of humanity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | anthropologie |
| German | Anthropologie, Menschenkunde, Menschenlehre |
| Portuguese | antropologia |
| Spanish | antropología |
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 anthropology come from?
From New Latin anthropologia, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human, mankind”) + -λογία (-logía). By surface analysis, anthropo- + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).