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ufology

/ˌjuːˈfɑləd͡ʒi/noun

ufology is a noun meaning “The study of UFOs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-F-O-L-O-G-Y, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of ufology is ufologies.

What does ufology mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The study of UFOs.

noun

as UFOlogy
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of ufology.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce ufology?

  • US /ˌjuːˈfɑləd͡ʒi/
  • US /ˌjuːɛfˈɑləd͡ʒi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ufology

  • ufologies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ufology?

Ufology appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).

Ufology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense the study of UFOs:

LanguageWords
Frenchovniologie, ufologie
GermanUfologie
Portugueseufologia, ovnilogia
Spanishufología

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 ufology come from?

From UFO + -logy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).