paralysies
\pa.ʁa.li.zi\
The verdict
“paralysies” is uncommon French (frequency #82,315 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,315
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pluriel de paralysie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paralysies · paralysies · French
paralysies · rank #82,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,315
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH paraguayen
Nearest frequency peer: paraguayen (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “paralysies”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Pantani
Pantani
17,689 corpus weight
- paraguayen
paraguayen
17,687 corpus weight
- paralysies
paralysies
17,686 corpus weight
- paranoïde
paranoïde
17,685 corpus weight
- parascolair…
parascolaires
17,684 corpus weight
- parlèrent
parlèrent
17,683 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “paralysies” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paralysies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.li.zi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #82,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “paralysies” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
paralysies is uncommon French at frequency #82,315 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ʁa.li.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de paralysie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paralysies, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is paralysies, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-S-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de paralysie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how paralysies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut prismer à l’angle objectif. À cette condition et en fonction de la déviation, toutes les paralysies peuvent être prismées à l’exception des paralysies du 111 (hors les paralysies partielles).
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
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.