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psychopath

/ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθ/noun

psychopath is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-A-T-H: 10 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, psychopath means “A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of psychopath is psychopaths.

How many letters and syllables are in psychopath?

Letters10: P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-A-T-H
Syllables3 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 19,077th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is psychopath?

Psychopath appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 19,077th 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 psychopath?

  • UK /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/
  • UK /ˈsaɪkəpæθ/
  • US /ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθ/

Psychopath has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-psychopath.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-psychopath2.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of psychopath

  • psychopaths plural

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

What does psychopath mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.

  2. 2

    A person with no moral conscience.

  3. 3

    A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.

  4. 4

    A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.

  5. 5

    obsoleteA person diagnosed with any mental disorder.

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

Psychopath in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpsychopathe (person with a personality disorder…)
GermanPsychopath, Psychopathin (person with a personality disorder…), Psychopatin (person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial…)
Portuguesepsicopata (person with a personality disorder…)
Spanishpsicópata (person with a personality disorder…)

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 psychopath come from?

From German psychopathisch, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).

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

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