psychosis
/saɪˈkəʊsɪs/
"psychosis" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psychosis” has 15 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,321. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,321
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
Corpus desk
Index EN-psychosis · psychosis · English
psychosis · rank #21,321 · 15 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #21,321
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH prerequisite
Nearest frequency peer: prerequisite (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “psychosis”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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78,683 corpus weight
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PowerPoint
78,682 corpus weight
- prerequisite
prerequisite
78,681 corpus weight
- psychosis
psychosis
78,680 corpus weight
- quantify
quantify
78,679 corpus weight
- rabies
rabies
78,678 corpus weight
What this shows “psychosis” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychosis |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /saɪˈkəʊsɪs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,321 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “psychosis”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around psychosis (IPA /saɪˈkəʊsɪs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,321 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychosis, with forms such as "ppsychosis", "pscyhosis", and "pssychosis". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "psychotic", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From psych- + -osis or from Ancient Greek ψύχωσις (psúkhōsis, “animation, principle of life”). The correct English form is psychosis, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-S-I-S.
Definition
- 1A severe mental disorder, sometimes with physical damage to the brain, marked by a deranged personality and a distorted view of reality.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psychosis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
Etymology
From psych- + -osis or from Ancient Greek ψύχωσις (psúkhōsis, “animation, principle of life”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsychosis
- pscyhosis
- pssychosis
- psycchosis
- psychhosis
- psychoiss
- psychosiss
- psychossi
- psychossis
- psychsois
- psycohsis
- psyhcosis
- psyychosis
- pyschosis
- spychosis
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychosis - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "psychosis", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).