psy
\psi\
The verdict
“psy” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #6,544) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #6,544
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Psychologue, psychiatre, psychothérapeute ou psychanalyste (la plupart du temps sans que soit faite la distinction entre les uns et les autres).
Corpus desk
Index FR-psy · psy · French
psy · rank #6,544 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,544
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH positifs
Nearest frequency peer: positifs (-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 « psy »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- poing
poing
93,460 corpus weight
- portraits
portraits
93,459 corpus weight
- positifs
positifs
93,458 corpus weight
- psy
psy
93,457 corpus weight
- rapprocheme…
rapprochement
93,456 corpus weight
- ras
ras
93,455 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « psy » 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 | psy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #6,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « psy »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for psy is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \psi\. Frequency #6,544 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Psychologue, psychiatre, psychothérapeute ou psychanalyste (la plupart du temps sans que soit faite la distinction entre les uns et les autres).".
psy doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 psy, spelled P-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Psychologue, psychiatre, psychothérapeute ou psychanalyste (la plupart du temps sans que soit faite la distinction entre les uns et les autres).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est incroyable comme vous les psys vous pouvez manquer de psychologie parfois !
Il faut entendre les gorges chaudes que les amis psys de maman font à propos du moindre jeu de mots et il faut entendre aussi les idioties que maman rapporte, parce qu’elle raconte à tout le monde ses séances avec son psy, comme si elle était allée à Disneyland.
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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