psychose
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,378
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
psychose is aFrenchnoun. It means: Affection psychique grave, qui ne peut se ranger parmi les névroses. Mot qui désigne d’une façon très générale toutes les maladies mentales avec troubles de la perception, du jugement et du raisonn... Pronounced \psi.koz\. Often confused with psycho and psychisme.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi.koz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #19,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for psychose is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \psi.koz\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,378 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for psychose, with forms such as "ppsychose", "pscyhose", and "pssychose". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "psycho", "psychisme", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is psychose, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Affection psychique grave, qui ne peut se ranger parmi les névroses. Mot qui désigne d’une façon très générale toutes les maladies mentales avec troubles de la perception, du jugement et du raisonnement, par opposition aux états purement névropathiques, tels que la neurasthénie.
- 2Dans le langage usuel, trouble des fonctions intellectuelles qui n’est pas proprement la démence, mais plutôt l’obsession.
- 3État de panique collective provoquée par un événement ou un fléau vécu comme une menace permanente.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ppsychose,pscyhose,pssychose,psycchose,psychhose,psychoes,psychosse,psychsoe,psycohse,psyhcose,psyychose,pyschose,spychose
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for psychose
Misspelling Variants of "psychose"
Frequency rank: #19,378 in French
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