Paranoiac

Definition: Paranoiac

Paranoiac

Noun

1. A person afflicted with paranoia.

Date "paranoiac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonym: Paranoiac

Synonym: paranoid (n). (additional references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Paranoiac (1963)

The Paranoiac Jane's Brother (1913)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Paranoiac (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Paranoiac" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Paranoiac" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	75%	9	117,287
Noun (singular)	25%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "paranoiac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		paranojak (paranoid). (various references)

Chinese		偏执狂 (paranoia). (various references)

Czech		paranoik. (various references)

Danish		paranoisk (paranoic), paranoid (paranoic). (various references)

Dutch		paranoisch (paranoic). (various references)

Finnish		vainohullu. (various references)

French		paranoïaque (paranoic, paranoid). (various references)

German		paranoisch (paranoic). (various references)

Greek		παράφρωνασ, παράφρων (demented, frantic, insane), παρανοϊκόσ, παρανοϊκός (paranoic, paranoid). (various references)

Hungarian		paranoiás (paranoid). (various references)

Italian		paranoideo (paranoic), paranoico (paranoid). (various references)

Manx		tranlaase-agglaghin, tranlaase-agglagh. (various references)

Pig Latin		aranoiacpay.(various references)

Portuguese		paranóico (paranoic). (various references)

Romanian		paranoic. (various references)

Russian		параноик, параноидальный (paranoid). (various references)

Spanish		paranoide (paranoic), paranoico (paranoid). (various references)

Swedish		paranoiker, paranoid (paranoid). (various references)

Turkish		paranoyak. (various references)

Ukranian		параноїчний, параноїк (paranoid). (various references)

Vietnamese		người mắc chứng hoang tưởng bộ phận. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "paranoiac": paranoiacs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Paranoiac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: parania, paranioa, parannoya, paranoai, paranoea, paranoi, paranoias, paranoic, paranoie, paranola, paranomia, paranora, paranotal, paronoia, pejanovic, Petraroia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-n-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: paranoia, paranoic.
	-2 letters: acapnia, ocarina.
	-3 letters: acinar, anopia, arcana, arnica, carina, crania, parian, picara, picaro, pirana.
	-4 letters: acari, acorn, apian, apron, cairn, capon, carpi, copra, coria, naira, narco, naric, noria, orcin, orpin, panic, piano, prion, racon.
	-5 letters: airn, anoa, arco, aria, cain, capo, carn, carp, ciao, cion, coin, coir, coni, corn, crap, crop, icon, inro, iron, naoi, narc, nipa, noir, nori, orca, paca, pain, pair, para, pian, pica, pina, pion, pirn, porn, prao, proa, raia, rain, rani, roan.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-n-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: paranoiacs.
	+3 letters: paranoically, pyromaniacal.
	+4 letters: anaphorically, anaphrodisiac, panoramically.
	+5 letters: achondroplasia, anaphrodisiacs, inapproachable, phantasmagoric.
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