hyperesthesia
noun
hyperesthesia is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-A. The wrong spelling people search most is hyperasthesia: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 58 of all searches for the word. Hyperesthesia is a noun meaning “Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense”. The plural of hyperesthesia is hyperesthesias.
How do you spell hyperesthesia?
Hyperesthesia is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-E-S-T-H-E-S-I-A. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 58 of the searches for hyperesthesia 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.
What does hyperesthesia mean?
noun
- 1
Unusual or pathological sensitivity of the skin or of a particular sense.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperesthesia
- hyperesthesias plural
- hyperaesthesia
- hyperæsthesia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperesthesia?
Hyperesthesia appears about once in every 98 million words in written English, the 317,168th 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).
Hyperesthesia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unusual sensitivity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hyperesthésie |
| Spanish | hiperestesia |
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 hyperesthesia come from?
From hyper- + -aesthesia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).