paralyzed
"paralyzed" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paralyzed” has 14 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #16,294. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,294
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.
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 | paralyzed |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #16,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paralyzed” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around paralyzed, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,294 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for paralyzed, with forms such as "apralyzed", "paarlyzed", and "parallyzed". 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, "paralyze", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is paralyzed, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-Z-E-D.
Definition
- 1Partly or wholly incapable of movement; disabled.
- 2Rendered incapable of action.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apralyzed
- paarlyzed
- parallyzed
- paralyezd
- paralyyzed
- paralyzde
- paralyzedd
- paralyzzed
- paralzyed
- paraylzed
- parlayzed
- parralyzed
- pparalyzed
- praalyzed
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paralyzed - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “paralyzed”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-R-A-L-Y-Z-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “paralyze” - see the side-by-side comparison. paralyzed vs paralyze
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Same frequency band
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.