scatological
adjective
scatological is spelled S-C-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L. The wrong spelling people search most is scatalogical: about 160 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Scatological is an adjective meaning “Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces, or dung”.
How many letters and syllables are in scatological?
| Letters | 12: S-C-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 5 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 105,204th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, scatalogical, about 160 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 scatological?
Scatological is spelled S-C-A-T-O-L-O-G-I-C-A-L. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for scatological 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 scatological?
Scatological appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 105,204th 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 scatological?
- General-American
Scatological has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-scatological.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of scatological
- more scatological comparative
- most scatological superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scatological mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Relating to the research area of scatology, the particulate study of biological excrement, feces, or dung.
The scientist could read the dinosaur dung to see what it had eaten. He was an expert in scatological studies.
- 2
Relating to scatology, the use of obscenities.
His interest in scatological reading gained him very few friends.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Scatological in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to scatology, the study of faeces:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | scatologique |
| Portuguese | escatológico |
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 scatological come from?
From scatology + -ical. Compare eschatological.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).