hypergeometric
adjective, noun
hypergeometric is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to mathematical entities of different kinds (series, functions, equations, ...) but strictly related to hypergeometric series” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-G-E-O-M-E-T-R-I-C, and it appears about once in every 13 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypergeometric mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to mathematical entities of different kinds (series, functions, equations, ...) but strictly related to hypergeometric series
noun
- 1
Such a function, series etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypergeometric?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hypergeometric.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hypergeometric
- hypergeometrics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypergeometric?
Hypergeometric appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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 hypergeometric come from?
From hyper- + geometric.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).