paralytique
\pa.ʁa.li.tik\
The verdict
“paralytique” is uncommon French (frequency #70,923 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,923
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Atteint de paralysie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paralytique · paralytique · French
paralytique · rank #70,923 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,923
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paralysées
Nearest frequency peer: paralysées (-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 « paralytique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pancréatique
pancréatique
29,082 corpus weight
- parallélogr…
parallélogramme
29,080 corpus weight
- paralysées
paralysées
29,079 corpus weight
- paralytique
paralytique
29,078 corpus weight
- paraphe
paraphe
29,077 corpus weight
- parient
parient
29,076 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paralytique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paralytique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.ʁa.li.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #70,923 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paralytique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paralytique is uncommon French at frequency #70,923 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.ʁa.li.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Atteint de paralysie.".
paralytique has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 paralytique, spelled P-A-R-A-L-Y-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Atteint de paralysie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paralytique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il est paralytique de la moitié du corps.
Elle est paralytique d’un bras.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).