psychiatre

\psi.kjatʁ\

/\psi.kjatʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“psychiatre” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,542. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#9,542
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
16
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecin spécialiste de la psychiatrie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-psychiatre · psychiatre · French

psychiatre · rank #9,542 · 16 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #9,542
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH présidentiell…

Nearest frequency peer: présidentielles (-2 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 « psychiatre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « psychiatre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

psychiatre vs psychiatrie
91% similar
psychiatre vs psychiatres
91% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for psychiatre
PropertyValue
Headwordpsychiatre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\psi.kjatʁ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#9,542
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « psychiatre »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).psychiatrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « présidentielles » (#9,540), « quotidiens » (#9,544), « prénoms » (#9,539). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « psychiatre » est au #9,542. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around psychiatre (IPA \psi.kjatʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,542 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Médecin spécialiste de la psychiatrie.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychiatre, with forms such as "ppsychiatre", "pscyhiatre", and "pssychiatre". 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, "psychiatrie", "psychiatres", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is psychiatre, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Médecin spécialiste de la psychiatrie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how psychiatre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je l’ai déjà indiqué; un cyclothymique est soigné d’habitude par son médecin habituel; plus rarement il va consulter un médecin neurologique, et ce n’est qu’exceptionnellement qu’il s’adresse à un psychiatre.
  2. Il serait donc vain de nier l’existence et les progrès des maladies mentales au (19) siècle. Les psychiatres classificateurs de l’époque n’ont pas travaillé à enfermer des innocents. A partir des années 1800, la société est massivement pathogène. Et c’est normal.

This word in other languages

psychiatrist(English)psiquiatra(Español)Psychiater(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ppsychiatre
  • pscyhiatre
  • pssychiatre
  • psycchiatre
  • psychaitre
  • psychhiatre
  • psychiarte
  • psychiater
  • psychiatrre
  • psychiattre
  • psychitare
  • psycihatre
  • psyhciatre
  • psyychiatre
  • pyschiatre
  • spychiatre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychiatre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ppsychiatre1pscyhiatre2pssychiatre1psycchiatre1psychaitre2psychhiatre1psychiarte2psychiater2
Edit distance from "psychiatre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "psychiatre"?
"psychiatre" is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \psi.kjatʁ\.
What does "psychiatre" mean?
As a noun, "psychiatre" means: Médecin spécialiste de la psychiatrie.
What words are commonly confused with "psychiatre"?
"psychiatre" is commonly confused with "psychiatrie", "psychiatres". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "psychiatre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "psychiatre" is \psi.kjatʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "psychiatre" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "psychiatre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

quotidiens#9,544sacrifices#9,555orientales#9,526voudraient#9,576

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

soulagement16 variantsélémentaire16 variantsinondations16 variantsindignation16 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list