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Spell Bee Word: Psychiatrist


What does psychiatrist mean?

Word: Psychiatrist

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Psychiatrist means a medical doctor who treats people with mental illness or problems of the mind and emotions.

How do you spell psychiatrist?

Syllables: psy - chi - a - trist

Tricky part: The p at the start is silent and ch sounds like k, so students write sykiatrist or drop the p. The eye sound after ps is spelt y.

Watch out for: sychiatrist, psykiatrist, pyschiatrist

Memory tip: Psychology and psychiatrist open with the same five letters, psych. Learn that block once and it serves both words.

Psychiatrist in a sentence

Example 1: The family doctor sent him to a psychiatrist to help with his worries and sleepless nights.

Example 2: A psychiatrist can prescribe medicine, while a counsellor usually helps by talking.

Example 3: My cousin is training to become a psychiatrist at a hospital in Bengaluru.

Fun Fact

The word joins the Greek psyche, mind or soul, with a Greek word for healer, so a psychiatrist is a healer of the mind.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) pharmasist
b) dermatolojist
c) physicion
d) psychiatrist

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d) psychiatrist. Pharmacist has a c, dermatologist a g, and physician ends in ian.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

chytsiarstip

a) psychiatric
b) physicist
c) psychiatrist
d) psychologist

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c) psychiatrist. Psychologist needs an o and a g; psychiatric stops short, leaving s and t over.

Word Cookie

Fill in the missing letters to complete the word:

psychi_tr_st

a) e, i
b) a, e
c) a, i
d) e, e

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c) a, i. Say psy-chi-a-trist: the a has its own syllable, and the job ending is ist.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A psychiatrist mainly helps people with ____.

a) eyesight problems
b) mental health problems
c) skin problems
d) dental problems

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b) mental health problems

2. Which of these words begins with a silent letter, like psychiatrist?

a) pineapple
b) pneumonia
c) peninsula
d) passenger

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b) pneumonia

Associated Words

Words that end in -ist: toxicologist, astrophysicist, zoologist, linguist, ecologist, environmentalist

More words from this list

surveyor, yearn, arbitration, climactic, deteriorate, feign, immunology, naturalistic

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