psychothérapie
\psi.kɔ.te.ʁa.pi\
The verdict
“psychothérapie” has 23 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,092. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,092
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
- 23
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pratique censée soigner ou aider à résoudre les problèmes comportementaux et psychologiques rencontrés par des individus.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychothérapie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \psi.kɔ.te.ʁa.pi\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #25,092 |
| Misspellings tracked | 23 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “psychothérapie” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 23 spelling variants around psychothérapie (IPA \psi.kɔ.te.ʁa.pi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #25,092 among 248,534 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pratique censée soigner ou aider à résoudre les problèmes comportementaux et psychologiques rencontrés par des individus.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for psychothérapie, with forms such as "ppsychothérapie", "pscyhothérapie", and "pssychothérapie". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is psychothérapie, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-H-É-R-A-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Pratique censée soigner ou aider à résoudre les problèmes comportementaux et psychologiques rencontrés par des individus.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ppsychothérapie
- pscyhothérapie
- pssychothérapie
- psycchothérapie
- psychhothérapie
- psychohtérapie
- psychotherapie
- psychothhérapie
- psychothréapie
- psychothéarpie
- psychothéraipe
- psychothérapei
- psychothérappie
- psychothérpaie
- psychothérrapie
- psychotthérapie
- psychotéhrapie
- psychtohérapie
- psycohthérapie
- psyhcothérapie
- psyychothérapie
- pyschothérapie
- spychothérapie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of psychothérapie - 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.
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Using “psychothérapie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-S-Y-C-H-O-T-H-É-R-A-P-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \psi.kɔ.te.ʁa.pi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.