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Definition: Speleology |
SpeleologyNoun1. The scientific study of caves. 2. The pastime of exploring caves. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Geological | The exploration and study of caves. (references) |
Mining | The scientific study or exploration of caverns and related features. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: SpeleologySynonym: spelaeology (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Speleology" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Speleology" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
speleology | 28 |
urban speleology | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "speleology"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpeleologji (spelaeology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | دراسة المغاور (spelaeology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спелеология, изучаване на пещерите. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | luolatutkimus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spéléologie (spelunking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Höhlenforschung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπηλαιολογία (spelaeology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חקר מערות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | barlangkutatás (spelaeology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | speleologia (potholing, spelaeology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ooig-oaylleeaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eleologyspay espeleologia (spelaeology). (various references) speologie, speleologie. (various references) спелеология (spelaeology). (various references) speleologija. (various references) espeleología (potholing, spelaeology, spelunking). (various references) speleologi, grottforskning (potholing). (various references) speleoloji, mağara bilimi. (various references) спелеологія (spelaeology, spelunking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-l-l-o-o-p-s-y" | |
-3 letters: loosely, pollees. | |
-4 letters: elopes, goosey, gospel, looeys, pogeys, pollee, sleepy, solely, solgel, yogees. | |
-5 letters: elegy, elope, glees, gleys, glops, golly, gooey, goops, goopy, goose, goosy, leges, loges, logos, looey, loops, loopy, loose, lopes, losel, ogees, ogles, oleos, ology, peels, peles, ploys, poesy, pogey, poles, polls, polos, polys, pools, seely, seepy, selle, sepoy, sleep. | |
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