psychopathy
/saɪˈkɒpəθi/
"psychopathy" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psychopathy” is uncommon English (frequency #53,793 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,793
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A personality disorder characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits masked by superficial charm and the outward presence of apparent normality. Viole...
Corpus desk
Index EN-psychopathy · psychopathy · English
psychopathy · rank #53,793 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,793
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Prue
Nearest frequency peer: Prue (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “psychopathy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- protrude
protrude
46,211 corpus weight
- PRP
PRP
46,210 corpus weight
- Prue
Prue
46,209 corpus weight
- psychopathy
psychopathy
46,208 corpus weight
- Puente
Puente
46,206 corpus weight
- quarried
quarried
46,205 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “psychopathy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychopathy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /saɪˈkɒpəθi/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #53,793 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “psychopathy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
psychopathy is uncommon English at frequency #53,793 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /saɪˈkɒpəθi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
psychopathy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From psycho- + -pathy. The correct English form is psychopathy, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-A-T-H-Y.
Definition
- 1A personality disorder characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, and bold, disinhibited, and egocentric traits masked by superficial charm and the outward presence of apparent normality. Violent and criminal offenses may be indicative of this disorder.
- 2A mental illness; insanity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psychopathy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is true that insanity may originate in the mind, as well as in the body, but diseased action must take place in the brain, otherwise we have not, as has been well observed, “a true psychopathy.”
Etymology
From psycho- + -pathy.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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