paralyzing
"paralyzing" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“paralyzing” has 16 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,825
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - That paralyzes.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paralyzing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #43,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paralyzing” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around paralyzing, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #43,825 among 46,516 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "That paralyzes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for paralyzing, with forms such as "apralyzing", "paarlyzing", and "parallyzing". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is paralyzing, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-Z-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1That paralyzes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apralyzing
- paarlyzing
- parallyzing
- paralyizng
- paralyyzing
- paralyzign
- paralyzingg
- paralyzinng
- paralyznig
- paralyzzing
- paralzying
- paraylzing
- parlayzing
- parralyzing
- pparalyzing
- praalyzing
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of paralyzing - 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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Using “paralyzing”
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-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.