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criminological

adjective

criminological is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to criminology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does criminological mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to criminology.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce criminological?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-criminological.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of criminological

  • more criminological comparative
  • most criminological superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is criminological?

Criminological appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).

Criminological in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense of or pertaining to criminology:

LanguageWords
Frenchcriminologique
Germankriminologisch
Portuguesecriminológico
Spanishcriminológico

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.