Paralympics
"paralympics" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Paralympics” has 18 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,463
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games an...
Corpus desk
Index EN-paralympics · Paralympics · English
Paralympics · rank #22,463 · 18 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #22,463
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH palsy
Nearest frequency peer: palsy (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Paralympics”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- organisatio…
organisational
77,541 corpus weight
- Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
77,540 corpus weight
- palsy
palsy
77,539 corpus weight
- Paralympics
Paralympics
77,538 corpus weight
- paramilitary
paramilitary
77,537 corpus weight
- partridge
partridge
77,536 corpus weight
What this shows “Paralympics” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Paralympics |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #22,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Paralympics”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around Paralympics, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,463 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games an...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for Paralympics, with forms such as "apralympics", "paarlympics", and "parallympics". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Paralympic", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics, itself from Olympic + -s. The correct English form is Paralympics, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-M-P-I-C-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Paralympics appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900.
The flames will then be joined together next week at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Paralympics, and the united flame will make its final journey to London for the opening of the 14th Paralympic Games next Wednesday. […] The lighting ceremonies mark the start of the biggest Paralympics in history, which will see 4,200 Paralympians fr…
Etymology
Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics, itself from Olympic + -s.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apralympics
- paarlympics
- parallympics
- paralmypics
- paralymipcs
- paralymmpics
- paralympcis
- paralympiccs
- paralympicss
- paralympisc
- paralymppics
- paralypmics
- paralyympics
- paraylmpics
- parlaympics
- parralympics
- pparalympics
- praalympics
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Paralympics - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).