ecology

Other forms of ecology

plural

ecologies·

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 ecology

What does ecology mean?

ecology means "the environment as it relates to living organisms". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ecology?

ecology has 4 syllables: e-co-lo-gy. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ɪˈkɑlədʒi/.

What is another word for ecology?

Close synonyms include bionomics, environmental science. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ecology a common word?

ecology is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ecology?

6 words rhyme with ecology. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.