psychiatrisch
[psyˈçi̯aːtʁɪʃ]
The verdict
“psychiatrisch” is an uncommon German word, ranked #92,097 in German word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #92,097
- frequency rank, German
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - die Psychiatrie betreffend, zu ihr gehörig, von ihr aus gehend, durch sie erfolgend
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychiatrisch |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | [psyˈçi̯aːtʁɪʃ] |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #92,097 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “psychiatrisch” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for psychiatrisch is 13 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [psyˈçi̯aːtʁɪʃ]. Corpus data places it at rank #92,097 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "die Psychiatrie betreffend, zu ihr gehörig, von ihr aus gehend, durch sie erfolgend".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for psychiatrisch, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is psychiatrisch, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-S-C-H.
Definition
- 1die Psychiatrie betreffend, zu ihr gehörig, von ihr aus gehend, durch sie erfolgend
This word in other languages
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-S-C-H - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.