neonatology
/ˌniːəʊnəˈtɒləd͡ʒi/noun
neonatology is spelled N-E-O-N-A-T-O-L-O-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is neonatalogy: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 33 of all searches for the word. Neonatology is a noun meaning “The branch of medicine that deals with newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant”. The plural of neonatology is neonatologies.
How many letters and syllables are in neonatology?
| Letters | 11: N-E-O-N-A-T-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, neonatalogy, 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 neonatology?
Neonatology is spelled N-E-O-N-A-T-O-L-O-G-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 33 of the searches for neonatology 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 neonatology?
Neonatology appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 neonatology?
- /ˌniːəʊnəˈtɒləd͡ʒi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of neonatology
- neonatologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does neonatology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The branch of medicine that deals with newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Neonatology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense branch of medicine that deals with newborn infants:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | néonatologie |
| German | Neonatologie |
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 neonatology come from?
From neonate + -ology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).