psychiatrist
/ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.70 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”"
- "Even medical schools seem to have submitted to psychophobia by training psychiatrists almost exclusively as psychopharmacologists instead of as psychotherapists."
- "Pass the chalk. Dr. Levine was there with a friend and fellow psychiatrist (detect a pattern?), Alexa Albert, Coco’s mother, who squinted up into the sun as her daughter effortlessly sailed skyward. Dr. Albert is an acrophobe."
Etymology
Etymology tree French psych- French -iatre French psychiatre Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Old French -ie Middle French -ie French -ie French psychiatriebor. English psychiatry Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English psychiatrist From psychiatry + -ist.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌsaɪˈkaɪ.ə.tɹɪst/