psychique

\psi.ʃik\

/\psi.ʃik\/ adj

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The verdict

“psychique” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,880. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,880
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au psychisme, à la psyché, à l'esprit en général ; mental au sens large ; (c'est l'objet d'étude de la psychologie).

Corpus desk

Index FR-psychique · psychique · French

psychique · rank #13,880 · 14 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,880
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH prévoyait

Nearest frequency peer: prévoyait (-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 « psychique »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « psychique » 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).

psychique vs psychisme
78% similar
psychique vs psychiques
90% similar
psychique vs psychotique
82% similar

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

Key facts for psychique
PropertyValue
Headwordpsychique
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\psi.ʃik\
Letters9
Frequency rank#13,880
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « psychique »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « prévoyait » (#13,879), « pus » (#13,881), « prépa » (#13,878). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « psychique » est au #13,880. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around psychique (IPA \psi.ʃik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,880 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychique, with forms such as "ppsychique", "pscyhique", and "pssychique". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "psychisme", "psychiques", "psychotique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is psychique, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-Q-U-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Relatif au psychisme, à la psyché, à l'esprit en général ; mental au sens large ; (c'est l'objet d'étude de la psychologie).
  2. 2
    Relatif à l’âme, aux facultés intellectuelles et morales.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Quand il est amené dans notre clinique, on constate mouvement subfébrile à 37,8 ; albuminurie légère. Au point de vue psychique, dépression avec anxiété et préoccupations hypocondriaques.
  2. C'est cet état général d’incertitude intellectuelle qui permet chez beaucoup la persistance d’attitudes doctrinales périmées, irréalistes, sans que l'on puisse faire de leurs égarements des symptômes psycho-pathologiques. […]. Mais on ne doit pas oublier que l’indéfinition des structures sociales crée chez beaucoup un état de trouble psychique.

This word in other languages

psychic(English)psíquica(Español)psychisch(Deutsch)psíquico(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ppsychique
  • pscyhique
  • pssychique
  • psycchique
  • psychhique
  • psychiqeu
  • psychiqque
  • psychiuqe
  • psychqiue
  • psycihque
  • psyhcique
  • psyychique
  • pyschique
  • spychique

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

ppsychique1pscyhique2pssychique1psycchique1psychhique1psychiqeu2psychiqque1psychiuqe2
Edit distance from "psychique"

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 "psychique"?
"psychique" is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-I-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \psi.ʃik\.
What does "psychique" mean?
As an adjective, "psychique" means: Relatif au psychisme, à la psyché, à l'esprit en général ; mental au sens large ; (c'est l'objet d'étude de la psychologie).
What words are commonly confused with "psychique"?
"psychique" is commonly confused with "psychisme", "psychiques", "psychotique". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "psychique"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "psychique" is \psi.ʃik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "psychique" come from?
"psychique" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prévoyait#13,879quantique#13,886rapportés#13,890redevenir#13,894

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

programmée14 variantsperturber14 variantspaternité14 variantsréalisant14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list