hydrosphere
noun
hydrosphere is a noun meaning “All the liquid waters of the Earth or another astronomical body, as distinguished from the land and the gases of the atmosphere” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-D-R-O-S-P-H-E-R-E, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hydrosphere is hydrospheres.
What does hydrosphere mean?
noun
- 1
All the liquid waters of the Earth or another astronomical body, as distinguished from the land and the gases of the atmosphere.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hydrosphere?
- UK
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Rho9998-hydrosphere.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hydrosphere
- hydrospheres plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hydrosphere?
Hydrosphere appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 128,787th 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).
Hydrosphere in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense waters of the Earth:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hydrosphère |
| German | Hydrosphäre |
| Portuguese | hidrosfera |
| Spanish | hidrosfera |
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 hydrosphere come from?
From hydro- + -sphere.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).