psychically
/ˈsaɪ.kɪk.li/
"psychically" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psychically” is uncommon English (frequency #67,755 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,755
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - in a psychical or psychic manner
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychically |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /ˈsaɪ.kɪk.li/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #67,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “psychically” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
psychically is uncommon English at frequency #67,755 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed /ˈsaɪ.kɪk.li/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for psychically, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From psychic + -ally. The correct English form is psychically, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-C-A-L-L-Y.
Definition
- 1in a psychical or psychic manner
- 2mentally
Etymology
From psychic + -ally.
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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Using “psychically”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-S-Y-C-H-I-C-A-L-L-Y - 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.