psychotherapist
"psychotherapist" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psychotherapist” has 25 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #40,405. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,405
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 25
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who practices psychotherapy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-psychotherapist · psychotherapist · English
psychotherapist · rank #40,405 · 25 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,405
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 25 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH PSL
Nearest frequency peer: PSL (-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.
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What this shows “psychotherapist” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychotherapist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #40,405 |
| Misspellings tracked | 25 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “psychotherapist”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 25 spelling variants around psychotherapist, anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,405 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Someone who practices psychotherapy.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 25 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychotherapist, with forms such as "ppsychotherapist", "pscyhotherapist", and "pssychotherapist". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From psycho- + therapist or psychotherapy + -ist. The correct English form is psychotherapist, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Someone who practices psychotherapy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psychotherapist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Psychotherapists are not immune to the same stereotypes that we all have, and I think they could become even more relevant for psychotherapists than for other professions [both medical and nonmedical], because they are embarking on this intimate, potentially long-term relationship with these [clients],” said Heather Kugelmass, a doctoral student in socio…
A psychotherapist I visited a few years ago [...] told me that my mother leaving my father, and my father letting us both go, has coloured my view of all relationships.
Etymology
From psycho- + therapist or psychotherapy + -ist.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsychotherapist
- pscyhotherapist
- pssychotherapist
- psycchotherapist
- psychhotherapist
- psychohterapist
- psychotehrapist
- psychothearpist
- psychotheraipst
- psychotherapisst
- psychotherapistt
- psychotherapits
- psychotherappist
- psychotherapsit
- psychotherpaist
- psychotherrapist
- psychothherapist
- psychothreapist
- psychottherapist
- psychtoherapist
- psycohtherapist
- psyhcotherapist
- psyychotherapist
- pyschotherapist
- spychotherapist
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychotherapist - 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
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (25 here; floor ≥5).