iconology
/aɪkəˈnɒlədʒi/noun
iconology is a noun meaning “The study of icons in art or art history” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-C-O-N-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of iconology is iconologies.
What does iconology mean?
noun
- 1
The study of icons in art or art history.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce iconology?
- UK /aɪkəˈnɒlədʒi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of iconology
- iconologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is iconology?
Iconology appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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).
Iconology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the study of icons:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | iconologie |
| Portuguese | iconologia |
| Spanish | iconología |
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 iconology come from?
From Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “icon”) + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).