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say it: PER-uh-dahym
paradigm is a noun meaning "systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word". It carries 4 recorded senses.
systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
“he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paradigm come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.