cytology
cy·tol·o·gy/saɪˈtɑləd͡ʒi/noun
cytology is spelled C-Y-T-O-L-O-G-Y, 4 syllables: cy·tol·o·gy. The wrong spelling people search most is cystology: about 120 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Cytology is a noun meaning “The study of cells”.
How do you spell cytology?
Cytology is spelled C-Y-T-O-L-O-G-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for cytology 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 cytology mean?
noun
- 1
The study of cells.
Holonym: cytohistology
- 2
Cytopathology.
Holonyms: cytohistology, cytohistopathology
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cytology?
- UK /saɪˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
- US /saɪˈtɑləd͡ʒi/
Cytology has 4 syllables, split cy·tol·o·gy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-cytology.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Rho9998-cytology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is cytology?
Cytology appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 73,203rd 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 abbreviate cytology?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of cytology: cytol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cytology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense biology: the study of cells:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cytologie |
| German | Zytologie, Zellbiologie |
| Portuguese | citologia |
| Spanish | citología |
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 cytology come from?
From cyto- (“cell”) + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).