psychosocial
/ˌsaɪ̯.koʊ̯ˈsoʊ̯.ʃəl/adjective
psychosocial is an adjective meaning “Having both psychological and social aspects” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-S-O-C-I-A-L and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does psychosocial mean?
adjective
- 1
Having both psychological and social aspects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce psychosocial?
- UK /ˌsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯ˈsəʊ̯.ʃəl/
- US /ˌsaɪ̯.koʊ̯ˈsoʊ̯.ʃəl/
Psychosocial has 4 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)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-psychosocial.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-psychosocial.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is psychosocial?
Psychosocial appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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).
Psychosocial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having both psychological and social aspects:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | psychosocial |
| Portuguese | psicossocial |
| Spanish | psicosocial |
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 psychosocial come from?
From psycho- + social.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).