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psychobiology

noun

psychobiology is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-B-I-O-L-O-G-Y: 13 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, psychobiology means “The study of the biological basis for cognition and other mental processes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of psychobiology is psychobiologies.

How many letters and syllables are in psychobiology?

Letters13: P-S-Y-C-H-O-B-I-O-L-O-G-Y
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 159,707th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is psychobiology?

Psychobiology appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 159,707th 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).

Forms of psychobiology

  • psychobiologies plural

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

What does psychobiology mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The study of the biological basis for cognition and other mental processes.

  2. 2

    The branch of psychology that interprets psychological phenomena in terms of adaptation to biological, environmental, etc. factors.

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

Where does psychobiology come from?

From psycho- + biology.

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

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