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pathy

/-pəθi/noun

pathy is a noun meaning “A therapy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-T-H-Y, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pathy is pathies.

What does pathy mean?

noun

  1. 1

    informalA therapy

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce pathy?

  • /-pəθi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of pathy

  • pathies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pathy?

Pathy appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Pathy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense in whichever sense:

LanguageWords
French-pathie
German-pathie
Portuguese-patia
Spanish-patía

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does pathy come from?

From the suffix -pathy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).