paleoecology
noun
paleoecology is a noun meaning “The ecology of the ancient past and of extinct organisms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-E-O-E-C-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paleoecology is paleoecologies.
What does paleoecology mean?
noun
- 1
The ecology of the ancient past and of extinct organisms
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paleoecology?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-paleoecology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paleoecology
- paleoecologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paleoecology?
Paleoecology appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).
Paleoecology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | paléoécologie |
| Spanish | paleoecología |
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 paleoecology come from?
From paleo- + ecology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).