psyche
/ˈsaɪ.ki/noun, interjection, verb
psyche is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “psych vs psyche” about 90 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, psyche means “The human soul, mind, or spirit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of psyche is psyches.
How many letters and syllables are in psyche?
| Letters | 6: P-S-Y-C-H-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.6 times per million words; the 16,687th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is psyche?
Psyche appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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).
How do you pronounce psyche?
- US /ˈsaɪ.ki/
- Australia /ˈsɑe.ki/
- /ˈsaɪ.ki/
As a noun (“Abbreviation of psychology”): /ˈsaɪk/.
Psyche has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-psyche1.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-StuckInLagToad-psyche.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-psyche2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with psyche
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: psych.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with psyche?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as psyche from its last stressed vowel (/aɪki/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of psyche
- psyches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- psych
- psyching participle, present
- psyched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does psyche mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The human soul, mind, or spirit.
- 2
The human mind as the central force in thought, emotion, and behavior of an individual.
- 3
A small white butterfly, Leptosia nina, family Pieridae, of Asia and Australasia.
- 4
Abbreviation of psychology.
interjection
- 1
colloquialAlternative form of psych.
verb
- 1
Alternative form of psych.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Psyche in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the human soul, mind, or spirit:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psyché, psychisme |
| German | Psyche, Geist |
| Portuguese | psique |
| Spanish | psique, psiquis, psiquismo |
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 psyche come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin psychē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).