neuropsychologie

/\nø.ʁo.psi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\/ noun

The verdict

“neuropsychologie” is an uncommon French word, ranked #88,931 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#88,931
frequency rank, French
16
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Discipline traitant des fonctions mentales supérieures dans leur rapport avec les structures cérébrales.

Key facts for neuropsychologie
PropertyValue
Headwordneuropsychologie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\nø.ʁo.psi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\
Letters16
Frequency rank#88,931
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “neuropsychologie” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). neuropsychologie lands here:

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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for neuropsychologie is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \nø.ʁo.psi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Corpus data places it at rank #88,931 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Discipline traitant des fonctions mentales supérieures dans leur rapport avec les structures cérébrales.".

No misspelling variants are generated for neuropsychologie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is neuropsychologie, spelled N-E-U-R-O-P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Discipline traitant des fonctions mentales supérieures dans leur rapport avec les structures cérébrales.

This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #88,931 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "neuropsychologie"?
"neuropsychologie" is spelled N-E-U-R-O-P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \nø.ʁo.psi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\.
What does "neuropsychologie" mean?
As a noun, "neuropsychologie" means: Discipline traitant des fonctions mentales supérieures dans leur rapport avec les structures cérébrales.
How do you pronounce "neuropsychologie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "neuropsychologie" is \nø.ʁo.psi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "neuropsychologie" come from?
"neuropsychologie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “neuropsychologie”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is N-E-U-R-O-P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-I-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \nø.ʁo.psi.kɔ.lɔ.ʒi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.