psychomotricity

noun

"psychomotricity" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“psychomotricity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The mental control of the muscles.

Corpus desk

Index EN-psychomotricity · psychomotricity · English

psychomotricity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for psychomotricity
PropertyValue
Headwordpsychomotricity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “psychomotricity” in English

psychomotricityfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

psychomotricity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The mental control of the muscles.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for psychomotricity, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is psychomotricity, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-M-O-T-R-I-C-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The mental control of the muscles.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how psychomotricity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. In actual fact it is not a technique in itself since each therapist in psychomotricity, once trained, may use all the body techniques discussed here.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "psychomotricity"?
"psychomotricity" is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-M-O-T-R-I-C-I-T-Y.
What does "psychomotricity" mean?
As a noun, "psychomotricity" means: The mental control of the muscles.
What language does "psychomotricity" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list