paralyse
verb
paralyse is a verb meaning “British standard spelling of paralyze” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-E, and it appears about once in every 8 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paralyse mean?
verb
- 1
British standard spelling of paralyze.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paralyse
- paralyses present, singular, he/she/it
- paralysing participle, present
- paralysed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paralyse?
Paralyse appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form in the list.
paralyse0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000
rarerper million words of written Englishmore common
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).