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hyperinflationary

adjective

hyperinflationary is an adjective meaning “Having very high levels of inflation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-I-N-F-L-A-T-I-O-N-A-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does hyperinflationary mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Having very high levels of inflation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hyperinflationary

  • more hyperinflationary comparative
  • most hyperinflationary superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hyperinflationary?

Hyperinflationary appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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 hyperinflationary come from?

From hyper- + inflationary.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).