etnologia

noun

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The verdict

“etnologia” is an uncommon Portuguese word, ranked #59,110 in Portuguese word frequency and used as a noun.

#59,110
frequency rank, Portuguese
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - ciência que estuda os fatos e documentos levantados pela etnografia no âmbito da antropologia cultural e social, buscando uma apreciação analítica e comparativa das culturas

Key facts for etnologia
PropertyValue
Headwordetnologia
LanguagePortuguese
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#59,110
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “etnologia” sits in Portuguese frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). etnologia lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The Portuguese entry for etnologia is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #59,110 in overall Portuguese word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "ciência que estuda os fatos e documentos levantados pela etnografia no âmbito da antropologia cultural e social, buscando uma apreciação analítica e comparativa das culturas".

etnologia doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct Portuguese form is etnologia, spelled E-T-N-O-L-O-G-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    ciência que estuda os fatos e documentos levantados pela etnografia no âmbito da antropologia cultural e social, buscando uma apreciação analítica e comparativa das culturas

This word in other languages

ethnology(English)etnología(Español)ethnologie(Français)Ethnologie(Deutsch)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "etnologia"?
"etnologia" is spelled E-T-N-O-L-O-G-I-A.
What does "etnologia" mean?
As a noun, "etnologia" means: ciência que estuda os fatos e documentos levantados pela etnografia no âmbito da antropologia cultural e social, buscando uma apreciação analítica e comparativa das culturas
What language does "etnologia" come from?
"etnologia" is a Portuguese word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “etnologia”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct Portuguese spelling is E-T-N-O-L-O-G-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list