technology
/tɛkˈnɑ.lə.dʒi/noun
technology is spelled T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is technolgy: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 132 of all searches for the word. Technology is a noun meaning “The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new…”. The plural of technology is technologies.
How many letters and syllables are in technology?
| Letters | 10: T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 123 times per million words; the 851st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, technolgy, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell technology?
Technology is spelled T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for technology 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 technology?
Technology appears 123 times per million words in written English, the 851st 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 technology?
- UK /tɛkˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/
- US /tɛkˈnɑ.lə.dʒi/
- /ˈʈek(h).noˈlɔː.dʒiː/
Technology has 4 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-technology.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Dev_Jadiya-technology.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with technology?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as technology from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlədʒi/):
- psychology
- biology
- apology
- ideology
- methodology
- sociology
- geology
- ecology
- terminology
- anthropology
- mythology
- physiology
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 technology
- technologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does technology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The combined application of science and art in practical ways in industry, as for example in designing new machines.
Meronyms: (contextually meronymous) art, applied science, industrial arts
- 2
Machines or equipment thus designed.
We went to the trade show to see the latest technology on display.
- 3
Any useful skill or mechanism that humans have developed or invented (including in prescientific eras).
the incipient metalworking technology of the Bronze Age
- 4
Any useful trait that has evolved in any organism.
- 5
The study of or a collection of techniques.
- 6
archaicA discourse or treatise on the arts.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate technology?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of technology: TMT, Tech., technol.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Technology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the study of or a collection of techniques:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | technologie, technique |
| German | Technologie, Technik |
| Portuguese | tecnologia, técnica |
| Spanish | tecnología, técnica |
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.