biology
/baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/noun
biology is spelled B-I-O-L-O-G-Y: 7 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, biology means “The study of all life or living matter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of biology is biologies.
How many letters and syllables are in biology?
| Letters | 7: B-I-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 17 times per million words; the 4,934th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is biology?
Biology appears 17 times per million words in written English, the 4,934th 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 biology?
- UK /baɪˈɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
- US /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- US /baɪˌɑl(ə)ˈd͡ʒi/
Biology has 4 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-biology.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with biology?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as biology from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlədʒi/):
- technology
- psychology
- apology
- ideology
- methodology
- sociology
- geology
- ecology
- terminology
- anthropology
- 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 biology
- biologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does biology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The study of all life or living matter.
Near-synonyms: life science, life sciences; see also Thesaurus:biology
- 2
The living organisms of a particular region.
- 3
The structure, function, and behavior of an organism or type of organism.
the biology of the whale
- 4
archaicA biographical history.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate biology?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of biology: Bio, bio, bio., biol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Biology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense study of living matter:
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 biology come from?
Borrowed from New Latin biologia (1766), itself from Ancient Greek βίος (bíos, “bio-, life”) + -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”). By surface analysis, bio- + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).