psychology
psy·chol·o·gy/saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/noun
psychology is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y, 4 syllables: psy·chol·o·gy. The wrong spelling people search most is psycology: about 820 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 27 of all searches for the word. Psychology is a noun meaning “The study of the human mind”. The plural of psychology is psychologies.
How many letters and syllables are in psychology?
| Letters | 10: P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: psy·chol·o·gy |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,224th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, psycology, about 820 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); 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 do you spell psychology?
Psychology is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 27 of the searches for psychology in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is psychology?
Psychology appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,224th 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 psychology?
- UK /saɪˈkɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
- US /saɪˈkɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- Australia /sɑɪˈkɔl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
Psychology has 4 syllables, split psy·chol·o·gy in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-psychology.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with psychology?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as psychology from its last stressed vowel (/ɑlədʒi/):
- technology
- biology
- apology
- ideology
- methodology
- sociology
- geology
- ecology
- terminology
- anthropology
- mythology
- physiology
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 psychology
- psychologies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does psychology mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The study of the human mind.
- 2
The study of human or animal behavior.
- 3
The study of the soul.
- 4
The mental, emotional, and behavioral characteristics pertaining to a specified person, group, or activity.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate psychology?
Wiktionary records 4 abbreviations of psychology: psych, psych., psyche, psychol..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Psychology in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense study of the human mind:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psychologie |
| German | Psychologie, Seelenkunde |
| Portuguese | psicologia |
| Spanish | psicología |
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 psychology come from?
From French psychologie, from Renaissance Latin psychologia, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + -λογία (-logía, “study of”), equivalent to psycho- + -logy. The Latin term is believed by some to have been coined in a lost treatise by Croatian humanist Marko Marulić (1450–1524), but this is disputed by other scholars. It is first attested in the 1570s, at which time it was apparently already current, and may be a Hellenization of the established expression dē animā (“on the soul”) in titles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).