paretic
/pəˈɹɛtɪk/adjective, noun
paretic is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to paresis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-R-E-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does paretic mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to paresis.
noun
- 1
A person who has paresis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paretic?
- /pəˈɹɛtɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of paretic
- more paretic comparative
- most paretic superlative
- paretics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paretic?
Paretic appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).
Where does paretic come from?
From paresis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).