paralysie cérébrale
\pa.ʁa.li.zi se.ʁe.bʁal\
The verdict
“paralysie cérébrale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Terme général désignant les troubles permanents du développement du mouvement et de la posture causés par des atteintes non progressives survenus lors du développement du cerveau chez le fœtus ou l...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paralysie cérébrale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.li.zi se.ʁe.bʁal\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paralysie cérébrale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for paralysie cérébrale is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.ʁa.li.zi se.ʁe.bʁal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Terme général désignant les troubles permanents du développement du mouvement et de la posture causés par des atteintes non progressives survenus lors du développement du cerveau chez le fœtus ou l...".
No misspelling variants are generated for paralysie cérébrale in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is paralysie cérébrale, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-E- -C-É-R-É-B-R-A-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terme général désignant les troubles permanents du développement du mouvement et de la posture causés par des atteintes non progressives survenus lors du développement du cerveau chez le fœtus ou le nourrisson.
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- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-E- -C-É-R-É-B-R-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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