psychiatrie
\psi.kja.tʁi\
The verdict
“psychiatrie” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,237. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,237
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Médecine des maladies mentales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psychiatrie · psychiatrie · French
psychiatrie · rank #13,237 · 17 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,237
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prospère
Nearest frequency peer: prospère (-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 « psychiatrie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- primordial
primordial
86,767 corpus weight
- privatisati…
privatisation
86,766 corpus weight
- prospère
prospère
86,765 corpus weight
- psychiatrie
psychiatrie
86,764 corpus weight
- péage
péage
86,763 corpus weight
- pénalité
pénalité
86,762 corpus weight
What this shows « psychiatrie » 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 | psychiatrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi.kja.tʁi\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #13,237 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « psychiatrie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around psychiatrie (IPA \psi.kja.tʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,237 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychiatrie, with forms such as "ppsychiatrie", "pscyhiatrie", and "pssychiatrie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "psychiatrique", "psychiatre", "psychiatres", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 psychiatrie, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-A-T-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Médecine des maladies mentales.
- 2Service psychiatrique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psychiatrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vous l’ai dit : cela fait trente ans qu’au nom de l’idéologie, de la rentabilité et des priorités budgétaires, on sinistre la psychiatrie dans ce pays.
La psychiatrie quand à elle n'est pas une science exacte. Récente, elle balbutie et en est encore à définir son objet. Un diagnostic psychiatrique est bien plus difficile à préciser que le diabète à la suite d'une glycémie élevée!
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsychiatrie
- pscyhiatrie
- pssychiatrie
- psycchiatrie
- psychaitrie
- psychhiatrie
- psychiartie
- psychiatire
- psychiatrei
- psychiatrrie
- psychiattrie
- psychitarie
- psycihatrie
- psyhciatrie
- psyychiatrie
- pyschiatrie
- spychiatrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychiatrie - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).