hyperosmotic
adjective
hyperosmotic is an adjective meaning “hypertonic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-O-S-M-O-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hyperosmotic mean?
adjective
- 1
hypertonic
- 2
Relating to hyperosmolarity
- 3
Relating to hyperosmosis
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperosmotic
- more hyperosmotic comparative
- most hyperosmotic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperosmotic?
Hyperosmotic appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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 hyperosmotic come from?
From hyper- + osmotic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).