psionic
/saɪˈɒn.ɪk/
"psionic" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psionic” is uncommon English (frequency #68,554 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,554
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to psionics.
Corpus desk
Index EN-psionic · psionic · English
psionic · rank #68,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,554
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH privatise
Nearest frequency peer: privatise (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “psionic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- prego
prego
31,451 corpus weight
- preparer
preparer
31,450 corpus weight
- privatise
privatise
31,448 corpus weight
- psionic
psionic
31,447 corpus weight
- PSNI
PSNI
31,446 corpus weight
- pumper
pumper
31,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “psionic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psionic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /saɪˈɒn.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #68,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “psionic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
psionic is uncommon English at frequency #68,554 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /saɪˈɒn.ɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or relating to psionics.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for psionic in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is psionic, spelled P-S-I-O-N-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to psionics.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psionic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He had honestly tried to understand the commander, but they came from different worlds. Although they could talk easily enough, with the tiny psionic translators they wore like hearing aids. Bowman’s hawknosed, black-pigmented face seemed as forbiddingly foreign as his life was strange.
"So." Rod touched his pursed lips to his steepled fingertips. "Somebody overseas lends the beastmen a huge surge of psionic power— in electrical form, of course; we re assuming psionics is based on an electrical phenomenon. The beastmen channel the power into their own projective telepathy, throw it into the soldiers' minds— somehow, eye contact seems to…
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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