paralysed
verb, adjective
paralysed is a verb meaning “simple past and past participle of paralyse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-E-D, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paralysed mean?
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of paralyse
adjective
- 1
Alternative spelling of paralyzed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paralysed
- more paralysed comparative
- most paralysed superlative
- paralyzed
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paralysed?
Paralysed appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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).
Words people confuse with paralysed
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: paralyzed.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).