phrenology
/frənˈɑlədʒi/noun
phrenology is spelled P-H-R-E-N-O-L-O-G-Y: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, phrenology means “The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of phrenology is phrenologies.
How many letters and syllables are in phrenology?
| Letters | 10: P-H-R-E-N-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 76,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is phrenology?
Phrenology appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th 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 phrenology?
- US /frənˈɑlədʒi/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-phrenology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with phrenology?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as phrenology from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlədʒi/):
- technology
- psychology
- biology
- apology
- ideology
- methodology
- sociology
- geology
- ecology
- terminology
- anthropology
- mythology
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nephrology.
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 phrenology
- phrenologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does phrenology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The pseudoscience which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Phrenology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the science or discredited pseudo-science of phrenology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | phrénologie |
| German | Phrenologie |
| Portuguese | frenologia |
| Spanish | frenología |
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 phrenology come from?
From phreno- + -logy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).