therapeutic
/ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/adjective, noun
therapeutic is spelled T-H-E-R-A-P-E-U-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is theraputic: about 550 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Therapeutic is an adjective meaning “Of, or relating to therapy”.
How many letters and syllables are in therapeutic?
| Letters | 11: T-H-E-R-A-P-E-U-T-I-C |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, theraputic, about 550 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell therapeutic?
Therapeutic is spelled T-H-E-R-A-P-E-U-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for therapeutic in either form.
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 therapeutic?
Therapeutic appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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 therapeutic?
- UK /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpjuː.tɪk/
- US /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk/
- US [ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.ɾɪk]
Therapeutic 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: En-us-therapeutic.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-therapeutic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with therapeutic?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as therapeutic from its last stressed vowel (/utɪk/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of therapeutic
- more therapeutic comparative
- most therapeutic superlative
- therapeutics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does therapeutic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of, or relating to therapy.
- 2
Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
noun
- 1
A therapeutic agent
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Therapeutic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of, or relating to therapy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | thérapeutique |
| German | therapeutisch |
| Portuguese | terapêutico, terapêutica |
| Spanish | terapéutico |
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 therapeutic come from?
From Middle English terapeucia, from New Latin therapeuticus (“curing, healing”), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikós, “attentive, helpful, obliging, curative”), from θεραπευτής (therapeutḗs, “one who waits on another, an attendant”), from θεραπεύω (therapeúō, “I wait on, attend, serve, cure”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).