paralympics
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.20 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
Example Sentences
- "At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900."
- "The flames will then be joined together next week at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire, the home of the Paralympics, and the united flame will make its final journey to London for the opening of the 14th Paralympic Games next Wednesday. […] The lighting ceremonies mark the start of the biggest Paralympics in history, which will see 4,200 Paralympians from 165 nations compete in London in sports including wheelchair racing, athletics, blind football and wheelchair rugby, and pit their wills against the finest talents in the world."
Etymology
Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics, itself from Olympic + -s.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
the Paralympics (canonical)