psychro-
\psi.kʁo\
The verdict
“psychro-” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prefix. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport avec le froid.
Corpus desk
Index FR-psychro · psychro- · French
psychro- · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | psychro- |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prefix |
| IPA | \psi.kʁo\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « psychro- » en français
Rare enough to double-check
psychro- is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as aprefix, transcribed \psi.kʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui a rapport avec le froid.".
Zero misspellings are on record for psychro- in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 psychro-, spelled P-S-Y-C-H-R-O--.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport avec le froid.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how psychro- appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les bactéries psychrophiles vivent dans de minces couches d’eau liquide entourées de glace.
This word in other languages
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