archaeology
ar·chae·o·lo·gy/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/noun
archaeology is spelled A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-Y, 5 syllables: ar·chae·o·lo·gy. The wrong spelling people search most is archaelogy: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 179 of all searches for the word. Archaeology is a noun meaning “The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains”. The plural of archaeology is archaeologies.
How do you spell archaeology?
Archaeology is spelled A-R-C-H-A-E-O-L-O-G-Y. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 135 of the searches for archaeology 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.
What does archaeology mean?
noun
- 1
The study of the past by excavation and analysis of its material remains.
- 2
The actual excavation, examination, analysis, and interpretation.
The building's developers have asked for some archaeology to be undertaken.
- 3
The actual remains together with their location in the stratigraphy.
The archaeology will tell us which methods of burial were used by the Ancient Greeks.
- 4
The academic subject; in the USA: one of the four sub-disciplines of anthropology.
She studied archaeology at Edinburgh University.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce archaeology?
- UK /ˌɑː.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
- US /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- Canada /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
Archaeology has 5 syllables, split ar·chae·o·lo·gy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-archaeology.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of archaeology
- archaeologies plural
- archeology US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is archaeology?
Archaeology appears 3.7 times per million words in written English, the 13,496th 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).
Words people confuse with archaeology
Also written: archeology.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
How do you abbreviate archaeology?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of archaeology: archaeol..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Archaeology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense scientific study of past remains:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | archéologie |
| German | Archäologie, Altertumskunde |
| Portuguese | arqueologia |
| Spanish | arqueología |
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.