psychothérapeute
\psi.ko.te.ʁa.pøt\
The verdict
“psychothérapeute” has 26 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,474. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,474
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 26
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Médecin ou personne (non diplômée de la faculté de médecine) spécialisé dans la thérapeutique du psychique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psychotherapeute · psychothérapeute · French
psychothérapeute · rank #41,474 · 26 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,474
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 26 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH psychisme
Nearest frequency peer: psychisme (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “psychothérapeute”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- présumées
présumées
58,530 corpus weight
- prééminence
prééminence
58,529 corpus weight
- psychisme
psychisme
58,528 corpus weight
- psychothéra…
psychothérapeute
58,527 corpus weight
- publishing
publishing
58,526 corpus weight
- puit
puit
58,525 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “psychothérapeute” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychothérapeute |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi.ko.te.ʁa.pøt\ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Frequency rank | #41,474 |
| Misspellings tracked | 26 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “psychothérapeute” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 26 spelling variants around psychothérapeute (IPA \psi.ko.te.ʁa.pøt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #41,474 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Médecin ou personne (non diplômée de la faculté de médecine) spécialisé dans la thérapeutique du psychique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 26 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychothérapeute, with forms such as "ppsychothérapeute", "pscyhothérapeute", and "pssychothérapeute". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is psychothérapeute, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-H-É-R-A-P-E-U-T-E.
Definition
- 1Médecin ou personne (non diplômée de la faculté de médecine) spécialisé dans la thérapeutique du psychique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how psychothérapeute appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je n’avais pas voulu prendre ces lettres de menaces au sérieux… Pas au sérieux, non plus, les conseils de quelques amis médecins qui m’avaient suggéré de faire suivre Julie par un psychothérapeute…
Lucile était suivie par un psychiatre qui lui prescrivait les médicaments et un psychothérapeute qu’elle voyait deux fois par semaine, avec lequel elle avait entrepris un travail au long cours, dont les séances se heurtaient à son mutisme. Lucile n’avait rien à dire.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsychothérapeute
- pscyhothérapeute
- pssychothérapeute
- psycchothérapeute
- psychhothérapeute
- psychohtérapeute
- psychotherapeute
- psychothhérapeute
- psychothréapeute
- psychothéarpeute
- psychothéraepute
- psychothérapetue
- psychothérapeuet
- psychothérapeutte
- psychothérappeute
- psychothérapuete
- psychothérpaeute
- psychothérrapeute
- psychotthérapeute
- psychotéhrapeute
- psychtohérapeute
- psycohthérapeute
- psyhcothérapeute
- psyychothérapeute
- pyschothérapeute
- spychothérapeute
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychothérapeute - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "psychothérapeute", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 16 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (26 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.