psychopathie
\psi.kɔ.pa.ti\
The verdict
“psychopathie” is uncommon French (frequency #84,202 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,202
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnalité pathologique se manifestant essentiellement par des comportements antisociaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psychopathie · psychopathie · French
psychopathie · rank #84,202 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,202
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH prévenante
Nearest frequency peer: prévenante (-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 « psychopathie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- prédatrices
prédatrices
15,802 corpus weight
- présumant
présumant
15,801 corpus weight
- prévenante
prévenante
15,800 corpus weight
- psychopathie
psychopathie
15,799 corpus weight
- puente
puente
15,798 corpus weight
- puez
puez
15,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « psychopathie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychopathie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi.kɔ.pa.ti\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #84,202 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psychopathie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psychopathie is uncommon French at frequency #84,202 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \psi.kɔ.pa.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnalité pathologique se manifestant essentiellement par des comportements antisociaux.".
psychopathie has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is psychopathie, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-P-A-T-H-I-E.
Definition
- 1Personnalité pathologique se manifestant essentiellement par des comportements antisociaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psychopathie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Notion difficile à cerner, la psychopathie cherche sa place dans la nosographie psychiatrique, un peu comme le psychopathe cherche sa place dans l’existence.
This word in other languages
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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