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psychotropic

/ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/adjective, noun

psychotropic is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is psychotrophic: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Psychotropic is an adjective meaning “Affecting the mind or mental processes”.

How many letters and syllables are in psychotropic?

Letters12: P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-R-O-P-I-C
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 50,539th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, psychotrophic, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them)

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How do you spell psychotropic?

Psychotropic is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-R-O-P-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for psychotropic in either form.

psychotropicthe right spelling890 searches a month
psychotrophican extra h30 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is psychotropic?

Psychotropic appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 50,539th 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).

How do you pronounce psychotropic?

  • /ˌsaɪkəˈtɹɒpɪk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-psychotropic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of psychotropic

  • more psychotropic comparative
  • most psychotropic superlative
  • psychotropics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does psychotropic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Affecting the mind or mental processes.

noun

  1. 1

    A psychotropic drug or agent.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Psychotropic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense affecting the mind or mental processes:

LanguageWords
Frenchpsychotrope

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 psychotropic come from?

From psycho- + -tropic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after psychotropic