social psychology

noun

"social-psychology" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“social psychology” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
17
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The interplay between the individual and society.

Corpus desk

Index EN-social-psychology · social psychology · English

social psychology · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 17 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for social psychology
PropertyValue
Headwordsocial psychology
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “social psychology” in English

social psychologysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

social psychology is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for social psychology in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is social psychology, spelled S-O-C-I-A-L- -P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The interplay between the individual and society.
  2. 2
    The study of how people and groups interact.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how social psychology appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Before we discuss our two main objectives, however, and present illustrations and our specific hypotheses, an overview of social movements and their social psychology will help put our ideas in the broader context to which they are directed.
  2. Georg Simmel (1902) pointed out that the money economy pervasive in a city fosters individualism, blasé attitudes, and secondary relations, thus linking urbanism with a particular social psychology.

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "social psychology"?
"social psychology" is spelled S-O-C-I-A-L- -P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y.
What does "social psychology" mean?
As a noun, "social psychology" means: The interplay between the individual and society.
What language does "social psychology" come from?
"social psychology" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list