quadriplegic
/ˌkwɒd.ɹɪˈp(ə)liː.dʒɪk/
"quadriplegic" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quadriplegic” is uncommon English (frequency #63,166 among 2,880 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,166
- frequency rank, English
- 2,880
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quadriplegic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌkwɒd.ɹɪˈp(ə)liː.dʒɪk/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #63,166 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quadriplegic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quadriplegic is uncommon English at frequency #63,166 among 2,880 “Q” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌkwɒd.ɹɪˈp(ə)liː.dʒɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for quadriplegic in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From quadri- (of Latin origins) and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”). The correct English form is quadriplegic, spelled Q-U-A-D-R-I-P-L-E-G-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.
Etymology
From quadri- (of Latin origins) and -plegic, from Ancient Greek πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”); probably patterned after paraplegic from the Ancient Greek παραπληγή (paraplēgḗ, “the paralysis of half of the body”).
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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- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-A-D-R-I-P-L-E-G-I-C - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.