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psychonaut

noun

psychonaut is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-N-A-U-T: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, psychonaut means “A person who explores their own psyche, commonly with the aid of psychedelic drugs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of psychonaut is psychonauts.

How many letters and syllables are in psychonaut?

Letters10: P-S-Y-C-H-O-N-A-U-T
In writingabout once in every 66 million words; the 255,765th 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 psychonaut?

Psychonaut appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 psychonaut

  • psychonauts plural

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

What does psychonaut mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person who explores their own psyche, commonly with the aid of psychedelic drugs.

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

Psychonaut in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Translations:

LanguageWords
Frenchpsychonaute
GermanPsychonaut
Spanishpsiconauta

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 psychonaut come from?

From psycho- + -naut.

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

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