hypermarket
/ˈhaɪpə(ɹ)ˌmɑːkɪt/
"hypermarket" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hypermarket” is uncommon English (frequency #77,782 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,782
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A shop combining elements of a department store and a supermarket.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hypermarket · hypermarket · English
hypermarket · rank #77,782 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,782
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hussy
Nearest frequency peer: hussy (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “hypermarket”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- horsing
horsing
22,226 corpus weight
- hussy
hussy
22,220 corpus weight
- hypermarket
hypermarket
22,219 corpus weight
- hypochlorite
hypochlorite
22,217 corpus weight
- IaaS
IaaS
22,215 corpus weight
- Illyria
Illyria
22,211 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hypermarket” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hypermarket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhaɪpə(ɹ)ˌmɑːkɪt/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #77,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hypermarket” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hypermarket is uncommon English at frequency #77,782 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhaɪpə(ɹ)ˌmɑːkɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A shop combining elements of a department store and a supermarket.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for hypermarket in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hyper- + market, calque of French hypermarché. The correct English form is hypermarket, spelled H-Y-P-E-R-M-A-R-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1A shop combining elements of a department store and a supermarket.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how hypermarket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cherry Jones as Nan Pierce (2023), 42:37 from the start, in Succession, season 2, episode 8: “I got a taste for hypermarché vin ordinaire when I was 19 years old and I have never been able to shake it.”
Etymology
From hyper- + market, calque of French hypermarché.
This word in other languages
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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