psychanalyse
\psi.ka.na.liz\
The verdict
“psychanalyse” has 20 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,465. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,465
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Méthode d’investigation psychologique qui aide à déceler dans l’esprit l’existence de souvenirs, désirs ou images, dont la présence subconsciente cause des troubles psychiques ou physiques.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psychanalyse · psychanalyse · French
psychanalyse · rank #11,465 · 20 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,465
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 20 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prévisible
Nearest frequency peer: prévisible (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « psychanalyse »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- providence
providence
88,539 corpus weight
- préparée
préparée
88,538 corpus weight
- prévisible
prévisible
88,537 corpus weight
- psychanalyse
psychanalyse
88,536 corpus weight
- quinquennat
quinquennat
88,534 corpus weight
- ram
ram
88,533 corpus weight
What this shows « psychanalyse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | psychanalyse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi.ka.na.liz\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #11,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 20 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « psychanalyse »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 20 spelling variants around psychanalyse (IPA \psi.ka.na.liz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,465 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Méthode d’investigation psychologique qui aide à déceler dans l’esprit l’existence de souvenirs, désirs ou images, dont la présence subconsciente cause des troubles psychiques ou physiques.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 20 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychanalyse, with forms such as "ppsychanalyse", "pscyhanalyse", and "pssychanalyse". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "psychanalyste", "psychanalystes", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is psychanalyse, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-A-N-A-L-Y-S-E.
Definition
- 1Méthode d’investigation psychologique qui aide à déceler dans l’esprit l’existence de souvenirs, désirs ou images, dont la présence subconsciente cause des troubles psychiques ou physiques.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psychanalyse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Entendu à la radio : « La psychanalyse a un inconscient, c’est la judéité. Freud a écrit qu’il fallait interpréter les rêves, comme on déchiffre des textes sacrés. »
Psychanalyse. Discipline fondée par Freud et dans laquelle avec lui on peut distinguer troix niveaux : A) Une méthode d’investigation consistant essentiellement dans la mise en évidence de la signification inconsciente des paroles, des actions, des productions imaginaires (rêves, fantasmes, délires) d’un sujet. Cette méthode se fonde principalement sur le…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsychanalyse
- pscyhanalyse
- pssychanalyse
- psycahnalyse
- psycchanalyse
- psychaanlyse
- psychanallyse
- psychanalsye
- psychanalyes
- psychanalysse
- psychanalyyse
- psychanaylse
- psychanlayse
- psychannalyse
- psychhanalyse
- psychnaalyse
- psyhcanalyse
- psyychanalyse
- pyschanalyse
- spychanalyse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychanalyse - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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