psychology
\saɪ.ˈkɑl.ə.dʒi\
The verdict
“psychology” is uncommon French (frequency #52,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,927
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Psychologie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psychology · psychology · French
psychology · rank #52,927 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,927
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH psautier
Nearest frequency peer: psautier (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « psychology »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prussiennes
prussiennes
47,077 corpus weight
- préventifs
préventifs
47,076 corpus weight
- psautier
psautier
47,075 corpus weight
- psychology
psychology
47,074 corpus weight
- puritain
puritain
47,072 corpus weight
- putréfaction
putréfaction
47,071 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psychology » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychology |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \saɪ.ˈkɑl.ə.dʒi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #52,927 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psychology » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psychology is uncommon French at frequency #52,927 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \saɪ.ˈkɑl.ə.dʒi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Psychologie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for psychology in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is psychology, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-L-O-G-Y.
Definition
- 1Psychologie.
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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