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paramedian

adjective

paramedian is spelled P-A-R-A-M-E-D-I-A-N: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, paramedian means “to one side of the median position” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in paramedian?

Letters10: P-A-R-A-M-E-D-I-A-N
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is paramedian?

Paramedian appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).

What does paramedian mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    to one side of the median position

    a left paramedian incision; a paramedian lumbar puncture

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does paramedian come from?

From para- + median.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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