psi
\psi\
The verdict
“psi” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,927) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - ψ, Ψ, vingt-troisième lettre et dix-septième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psi · psi · French
psi · rank #29,927 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,927
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préférerait
Nearest frequency peer: préférerait (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « psi »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- promus
promus
70,077 corpus weight
- prunes
prunes
70,076 corpus weight
- préférerait
préférerait
70,075 corpus weight
- psi
psi
70,074 corpus weight
- Puteaux
Puteaux
70,073 corpus weight
- rab
rab
70,072 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « psi » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « psi »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for psi is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \psi\. Frequency #29,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for psi in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PV", "Pt", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is psi, spelled P-S-I.
Definition
- 1ψ, Ψ, vingt-troisième lettre et dix-septième consonne de l’alphabet grec.
- 2Lettre archaïque de l’alphabet cyrillique.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).