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egyptology

/ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒi/noun

egyptology is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Egyptology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-G-Y-P-T-O-L-O-G-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of egyptology is egyptologies.

What does egyptology mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of Egyptology.

noun

as Egyptology
  1. 1

    The study of ancient Egypt.

  2. 2

    A work concerning ancient Egypt.

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

How do you pronounce egyptology?

  • US /ˌid͡ʒɪpˈtɑləd͡ʒi/
  • UK /ˌiːd͡ʒɪpˈtɒləd͡ʒi/

Egyptology has 5 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-egyptology.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of egyptology

  • egyptologies plural

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

How common is egyptology?

Egyptology appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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).

Egyptology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the study of ancient Egypt:

LanguageWords
Frenchégyptologie
GermanÄgyptologie
Portugueseegiptologia
Spanishegiptología

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 egyptology come from?

From Egypto- + -logy.

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