psychotropic
/ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/
"psychotropic" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“psychotropic” is uncommon English (frequency #50,749 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,749
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Affecting the mind or mental processes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-psychotropic · psychotropic · English
psychotropic · rank #50,749 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,749
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH psychosomatic
Nearest frequency peer: psychosomatic (-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 “psychotropic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- prowler
prowler
49,257 corpus weight
- PSE
PSE
49,255 corpus weight
- psychosomat…
psychosomatic
49,253 corpus weight
- psychotropic
psychotropic
49,252 corpus weight
- quantization
quantization
49,248 corpus weight
- Queenie
Queenie
49,247 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “psychotropic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychotropic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #50,749 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “psychotropic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
psychotropic is uncommon English at frequency #50,749 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Affecting the mind or mental processes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for psychotropic in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From psycho- + -tropic. The correct English form is psychotropic, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-R-O-P-I-C.
Definition
- 1Affecting the mind or mental processes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psychotropic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
“Medication can be part of a psychotropic arsenal,” he said, discussing one therapist who urged him to stop taking Xanax so he could address his anxiety directly and not mask the physical symptoms.
Etymology
From psycho- + -tropic.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).