hypermutation
noun
hypermutation is a noun meaning “Frequent mutation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-M-U-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 72 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypermutation is hypermutations.
What does hypermutation mean?
noun
- 1
Frequent mutation
- 2
The organism or gene that results from such a mutation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypermutation
- hypermutations plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypermutation?
Hypermutation appears about once in every 72 million words in written English, the 269,040th 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 hypermutation come from?
From hyper- + mutation.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).