meteorology
/ˌmiːti.əˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/noun
meteorology is spelled M-E-T-E-O-R-O-L-O-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is meterology: about 250 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Meteorology is a noun meaning “The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and…”. The plural of meteorology is meteorologies.
How many letters and syllables are in meteorology?
| Letters | 11: M-E-T-E-O-R-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 6 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, meterology, about 250 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell meteorology?
Meteorology is spelled M-E-T-E-O-R-O-L-O-G-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for meteorology 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 meteorology?
Meteorology appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 meteorology?
- UK /ˌmiːtɪəˈɹɒləd͡ʒi/
- US /ˌmiːti.əˈɹɑləd͡ʒi/
Meteorology has 6 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-meteorology.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-meteorology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with meteorology?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as meteorology from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlədʒi/):
- technology
- psychology
- biology
- apology
- ideology
- methodology
- sociology
- geology
- ecology
- terminology
- anthropology
- mythology
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of meteorology
- meteorologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does meteorology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The science that deals with the study of the atmosphere and its phenomena, especially with weather and weather forecasting.
study of meteorology
- 2
The atmospheric phenomena in a specific region or period.
meteorology report
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate meteorology?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of meteorology: meteor., meteorol, meteorol..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Meteorology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense science:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | météorologie |
| German | Meteorologie, Wetterkunde, Witterungslehre |
| Portuguese | meteorologia |
| Spanish | meteorología |
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 meteorology come from?
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μετεωρολογία (meteōrología), from μετέωρα (metéōra, “celestial phenomena”), nominalized from the neuter plural of μετέωρος (metéōros, “high in the sky”), + -λογία (-logía, “study of”). By surface analysis, meteor (“atmospheric phenomenon”) + -ology (“study of”). First attested in 1563.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).