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missiology

noun

missiology is spelled M-I-S-S-I-O-L-O-G-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, missiology means “The area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of missiology is missiologies.

How many letters and syllables are in missiology?

Letters10: M-I-S-S-I-O-L-O-G-Y
In writingabout once in every 38 million words; the 189,524th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is missiology?

Missiology appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th 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).

Forms of missiology

  • missiologies plural

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

What does missiology mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The area of practical theology which studies the mandate, message and work of the Christian missionary.

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

Missiology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the area of practical theology:

LanguageWords
Frenchmissiologie
GermanMissionswissenschaft
Portuguesemissiologia

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.

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