hybrid
/ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/noun, adjective
hybrid is spelled H-Y-B-R-I-D. The wrong spelling people search most is hybird: about 180 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Hybrid is a noun meaning “Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent…”. The plural of hybrid is hybrids.
How many letters and syllables are in hybrid?
| Letters | 6: H-Y-B-R-I-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hybird, about 180 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell hybrid?
Hybrid is spelled H-Y-B-R-I-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 31 of the searches for hybrid in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is hybrid?
Hybrid appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce hybrid?
- /ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd/
Hybrid has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-hybrid.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hybrid
- hybrids plural
- more hybrid comparative
- most hybrid superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hybrid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
- 2
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
- 3
A hybrid vehicle, especially a car; a vehicle that runs on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
- 4
A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.
- 5
A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.
- 6
An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
- 7
A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
- 8
A word that is internally macaronic, its elements being derived from different languages.
adjective
- 1
Of or composed of mixed origin or composition.
a hybrid mix of jazz and punk
- 2
Of a car, running on both fuel (gasoline or diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
- 3
Involving both 2D and 3D animation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hybrid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense biology: offspring resulting from crossbreeding:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hybride |
| German | Blendling, Mischling, Kreuzling, Kreuzung, Bastard, Hybride |
| Portuguese | híbrido |
| Spanish | híbrido |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hybrid come from?
From Latin hybrida, a variant of hibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, an offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”). Attested since 1601, but rare before c. 1850.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).