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ataxic

adjective, noun

ataxic is spelled A-T-A-X-I-C: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, ataxic means “Pertaining to ataxia” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ataxic?

Letters6: A-T-A-X-I-C
In writingabout once in every 33 million words; the 176,009th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is ataxic?

Ataxic appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of ataxic

  • ataxics plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does ataxic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Pertaining to ataxia

  2. 2

    Not eutaxic

noun

  1. 1

    A person suffering from ataxia.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Ataxic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense pertaining to ataxia:

LanguageWords
Frenchataxique

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does ataxic come from?

From ataxia + -ic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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