hypercompetitive
adjective
hypercompetitive is an adjective meaning “Extremely competitive” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypercompetitive mean?
adjective
- 1
Extremely competitive.
The parents at this school are hypercompetitive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypercompetitive
- more hypercompetitive comparative
- most hypercompetitive superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypercompetitive?
Hypercompetitive appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th 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).
Where does hypercompetitive come from?
From hyper- + competitive.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).