frenología
Spanish, noun/fɾenoloˈxia/
frenología is spelled F-R-E-N-O-L-O-G-Í-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish, the 128,005th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Frenología is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “phrenology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does frenología mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininephrenology
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Teoría antigua en la cual se afirmaba que es posible determinar el carácter y los rasgos de la personalidad, así como las tendencias criminales, basándose en la forma del craneo, cabeza y facciones. Desarrollada alrededor del 1800 por el neuroanatomista alemán Franz Joseph Gall y extremadamente popular durante el siglo XIX, hoy en día es considerada una pseudociencia.
noun: 1. Grafía alternativa de frenología.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of frenología
- frenologías plural
- frenologias plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce frenología?
- /fɾenoloˈxia/
- [fɾe.no.loˈxi.a]
- [fɾenoloˈxia]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to frenología
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is frenología in Spanish?
frenología appears about once in every 12 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).