behaviourism

noun

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"behaviourism" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“behaviourism” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Standard spelling of behaviorism.

Corpus desk

Index EN-behaviourism · behaviourism · English

behaviourism · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "B" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for behaviourism
PropertyValue
Headwordbehaviourism
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “behaviourism” sits in English frequency

behaviourism falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

behaviourism is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Standard spelling of behaviorism.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for behaviourism, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: From behaviour + -ism. The correct English form is behaviourism, spelled B-E-H-A-V-I-O-U-R-I-S-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Standard spelling of behaviorism.

Etymology

From behaviour + -ism.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "behaviourism"?
"behaviourism" is spelled B-E-H-A-V-I-O-U-R-I-S-M.
What does "behaviourism" mean?
As a noun, "behaviourism" means: Standard spelling of behaviorism.
What is the origin of the word "behaviourism"?
From behaviour + -ism. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list