astrology

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The English entry for astrology is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈstɹɒlədʒi/. Corpus data places it at rank #17,543 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Divination about human affairs or natural phenomena from the relative positions of celestial bodies.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for astrology, with forms such as "asrtology", "asstrology", and "astorlogy". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "astronomy", "anthology", "astrologer", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle French astrologie, and its source, Latin astrologia (“astronomy”), from Ancient Greek ἀστρολογία (astrología, “telling of the stars”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star, planet, or constellation”) + -λογία (-logía, “treating of”), a combination form of… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is astrology, spelled A-S-T-R-O-L-O-G-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.