Spelling
Geneology or genealogy?
Genealogy is the right spelling. Geneology is a common misspelling of it.
GENEOLOGY has O where GENEALOGY has A.
Why people write GENEOLOGY
In an unstressed syllable, A, E, I and O all sound like a quick "uh", so the ear cannot tell which one is written.
It starts with GENE, and ends in -ALOGY, not -ology.
How often GENEALOGY is misspelled
In the web pages Google counted for its trillion-word corpus (Peter Norvig's word counts), GENEOLOGY appears 24 times for every 1,000 GENEALOGY, about once for every 42 correct uses.
Is GENEOLOGY a word?
No. GENEOLOGY is not in NWL2023, Collins Scrabble Words or ENABLE, the word lists Scrabble and other word games use, so no word game accepts it. GENEALOGY is in all three and scores 14 points in Scrabble before bonus squares.
What genealogy means
noun: Successive generations of kin.
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