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 288 “Q” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,166
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of, related to, or suffering from quadriplegia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-quadriplegic · quadriplegic · English
quadriplegic · rank #63,166 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,166
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH quadrature
Nearest frequency peer: quadrature (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “quadriplegic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- pursuer
pursuer
36,838 corpus weight
- putsch
putsch
36,837 corpus weight
- quadrature
quadrature
36,836 corpus weight
- quadriplegic
quadriplegic
36,835 corpus weight
- quelling
quelling
36,833 corpus weight
- quiescent
quiescent
36,832 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “quadriplegic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “quadriplegic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
quadriplegic is uncommon English at frequency #63,166 among 288 “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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