eclogue
/ˈɛk.lɒɡ/noun
eclogue is spelled E-C-L-O-G-U-E. The wrong spelling people search most is ecologue: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Eclogue is a noun meaning “A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds”. The plural of eclogue is eclogues.
How many letters and syllables are in eclogue?
| Letters | 7: E-C-L-O-G-U-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 152,206th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, ecologue, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); 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).
How do you spell eclogue?
Eclogue is spelled E-C-L-O-G-U-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for eclogue 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.
How common is eclogue?
Eclogue appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 152,206th 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 eclogue?
- US /ˈɛk.lɒɡ/
- US /ˈɛkˌlɔɡ/
- US /ˈɛkˌlɑɡ/
Eclogue has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Mathmitch7-eclogue.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of eclogue
- eclogues plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does eclogue mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A pastoral poem, often in the form of a shepherd's monologue or a dialogue between shepherds.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Eclogue in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pastoral poem:
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 eclogue come from?
From Middle English eclog, from Latin ecloga, from Ancient Greek ἐκλογή (eklogḗ, “selection”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).