archaeological
adjective
archaeological is spelled A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is archaelogical: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Archaeological is an adjective meaning “Relating to the science or research of archaeology”.
How many letters and syllables are in archaeological?
| Letters | 14: A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, archaelogical, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How do you spell archaeological?
Archaeological is spelled A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for archaeological 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 archaeological?
Archaeological appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 archaeological?
- US
Archaeological has 6 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-archaeological.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with archaeological
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: archeological.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of archaeological
- more archaeological comparative
- most archaeological superlative
- archeological US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does archaeological mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to the science or research of archaeology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Archaeological in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the science or research of archaeology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | archéologique |
| German | archäologisch |
| Portuguese | arqueológico |
| Spanish | arqueológico |
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.