hyperhidrosis
[haɪpəɹhaɪˈdɹoʊsɪs]noun
hyperhidrosis is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-H-I-D-R-O-S-I-S. The wrong spelling people search most is hyperhydrosis: about 1,040 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Hyperhidrosis is a noun meaning “A medical condition with the primary symptom of excessive sweating, in excess of that required for regulation…”. The plural of hyperhidrosis is hyperhidroses.
How do you spell hyperhidrosis?
Hyperhidrosis is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-H-I-D-R-O-S-I-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for hyperhidrosis 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 hyperhidrosis mean?
noun
- 1
A medical condition with the primary symptom of excessive sweating, in excess of that required for regulation of body temperature.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hyperhidrosis?
- [haɪpəɹhaɪˈdɹoʊsɪs]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperhidrosis
- hyperhidroses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperhidrosis?
Hyperhidrosis appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 109,062nd 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).
Hyperhidrosis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a medical condition:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hyperhidrose |
| German | Hyperhidrose |
| Portuguese | hiperidrose, hiper-hidrose |
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 hyperhidrosis come from?
From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from hyper- + hidrosis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).