rhinology
noun
rhinology is a noun meaning “The scientific study of the nose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-H-I-N-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does rhinology mean?
noun
- 1
The scientific study of the nose.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rhinology?
Rhinology appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd 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).
Rhinology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense study of the nose:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | rinología |
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 rhinology come from?
From rhin- + -ology.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).