psychomotricité

\psi.ko.mɔ.tʁi.si.te\

/\psi.ko.mɔ.tʁi.si.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“psychomotricité” is uncommon French (frequency #92,081 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#92,081
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étude de l’ensemble des relations entre l’activité motrice et le psychisme.

Corpus desk

Index FR-psychomotricite · psychomotricité · French

psychomotricité · rank #92,081 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #92,081
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH psychoactives

Nearest frequency peer: psychoactives (-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 « psychomotricité »

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corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psychomotricité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for psychomotricité
PropertyValue
Headwordpsychomotricité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\psi.ko.mɔ.tʁi.si.te\
Letters15
Frequency rank#92,081
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « psychomotricité » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).psychomotricitétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « psychoactives » (#92,080), « psychosomatiques » (#92,082), « prétendra » (#92,079). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « psychomotricité » est au #92,081. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

psychomotricité is uncommon French at frequency #92,081 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \psi.ko.mɔ.tʁi.si.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Étude de l’ensemble des relations entre l’activité motrice et le psychisme.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for psychomotricité, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is psychomotricité, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-M-O-T-R-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Étude de l’ensemble des relations entre l’activité motrice et le psychisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Même si de nombreux enfants autistes ont un bon développement moteur, ils présentent très tôt des particularités de leur psychomotricité. Ils peuvent adopter des postures inhabituelles, agiter leurs doigts, être sans arrêt en mouvement ou au contraire manquer d’initiative.

This word in other languages

psychomotricity(English)Psychomotorik(Deutsch)

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 "psychomotricité"?
"psychomotricité" is spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-M-O-T-R-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \psi.ko.mɔ.tʁi.si.te\.
What does "psychomotricité" mean?
As a noun, "psychomotricité" means: Étude de l’ensemble des relations entre l’activité motrice et le psychisme.
How do you pronounce "psychomotricité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "psychomotricité" is \psi.ko.mɔ.tʁi.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "psychomotricité" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 15 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

supraconducteur#92,230unidimensionnel#92,300vidéoprojecteur#92,317géostratégiques#91,763

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list