paresthesia
/ˌpærɪsˈθiːziənoun
paresthesia is spelled P-A-R-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is parasthesia: about 1,140 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Paresthesia is a noun meaning “A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause”. The plural of paresthesia is paresthesias or paresthesiae.
How do you spell paresthesia?
Paresthesia is spelled P-A-R-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for paresthesia in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does paresthesia mean?
noun
- 1
A sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin, with no obvious cause.
Paresthesia occurs when a body part 'falls asleep'.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paresthesia?
- UK /ˌpærɪsˈθiːziə
- UK -ʒə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paresthesia
- paresthesias plural
- paresthesiae plural
- paraesthesia
- paræsthesia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paresthesia?
Paresthesia appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
Paresthesia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sensation of burning, prickling, itching, or tingling of the skin with no obviou:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | paresthésie |
| German | Missempfindung, Empfindungsstörung, Sensibilitätsstörung, Parästhesie, Fehlempfindung |
| Portuguese | parestesia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does paresthesia come from?
From Ancient Greek παραίσθησις (paraísthēsis). By surface analysis, para- + -esthesia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).