tetraplegic
noun
tetraplegic is a noun meaning “A quadriplegic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-E-T-R-A-P-L-E-G-I-C, and it appears about once in every 32 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tetraplegic is tetraplegics.
What does tetraplegic mean?
noun
- 1
A quadriplegic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of tetraplegic
- tetraplegics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is tetraplegic?
Tetraplegic appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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 tetraplegic come from?
From tetra- 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”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).