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palaeography

noun

palaeography is a noun meaning “Alternative form of paleography” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-A-E-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of palaeography is palaeographies.

What does palaeography mean?

noun

  1. 1

    UKAlternative form of paleography.

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

Forms of palaeography

  • palaeographies plural
  • palæography

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

How common is palaeography?

Palaeography appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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).

Where does palaeography come from?

From palaeo- + -graphy.

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