paralysant
\pa.ʁa.li.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“paralysant” is uncommon French (frequency #51,646 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,646
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui paralyse, qui ôte les forces physiques ou morales.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paralysant · paralysant · French
paralysant · rank #51,646 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,646
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paraissez
Nearest frequency peer: paraissez (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « paralysant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ottomanes
ottomanes
48,358 corpus weight
- pampa
pampa
48,357 corpus weight
- paraissez
paraissez
48,356 corpus weight
- paralysant
paralysant
48,355 corpus weight
- parlants
parlants
48,354 corpus weight
- parry
parry
48,353 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paralysant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paralysant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.li.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,646 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paralysant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paralysant is uncommon French at frequency #51,646 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.ʁa.li.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui paralyse, qui ôte les forces physiques ou morales.".
Zero misspellings are on record for paralysant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is paralysant, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui paralyse, qui ôte les forces physiques ou morales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paralysant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Même avec cette conviction paralysante qu’il est enguignonné…
En général, la vue se heurte à des rochers serrés, à des amoncellements de prisons. Cette concentration trahit un désespoir paralysant comme une crampe : une sorte d’agoraphobie caractérise ces gravures.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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