hypergiant
noun
hypergiant is a noun meaning “A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-G-I-A-N-T, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypergiant is hypergiants.
What does hypergiant mean?
noun
- 1
A star that is extremely massive and even more luminous than a supergiant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypergiant?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-hypergiant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hypergiant
- hypergiants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypergiant?
Hypergiant appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd 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).
Hypergiant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense star that is extremely massive:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hipergigante |
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 hypergiant come from?
From hyper- + giant.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).