dialectology

1. 1.

   the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects

   Broaderlinguistics

Other forms of dialectology

plural

dialectologies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dialectology

What does dialectology mean?

dialectology means "the branch of philology that is devoted to the study of dialects".

How many syllables are in dialectology?

dialectology has 6 syllables: di-a-lec-to-lo-gy. The stress falls on "to".

Is dialectology a common word?

dialectology is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.