hyperphagia
noun
hyperphagia is a noun meaning “Synonym of polyphagia (“excessive appetite for food”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-P-H-A-G-I-A, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hyperphagia is hyperphagias.
What does hyperphagia mean?
noun
- 1
Synonym of polyphagia (“excessive appetite for food”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperphagia
- hyperphagias plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperphagia?
Hyperphagia appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).
Hyperphagia in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | hiperfagia |
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 hyperphagia come from?
From hyper- + -phagia.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).