hyperglycemia
"hyperglycemia" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hyperglycemia” is uncommon English (frequency #65,977 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,977
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hyperglycemia |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #65,977 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hyperglycemia” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hyperglycemia is uncommon English at frequency #65,977 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for hyperglycemia, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hyper- + glycemia or hyper- + glyc + -emia. The correct English form is hyperglycemia, spelled H-Y-P-E-R-G-L-Y-C-E-M-I-A.
Definition
- 1An unusually high concentration of sugar in the blood
Etymology
From hyper- + glycemia or hyper- + glyc + -emia.
Antonyms
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “hyperglycemia”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-Y-P-E-R-G-L-Y-C-E-M-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.