hypersaline
adjective
hypersaline is an adjective meaning “Having an abnormally high salinity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-S-A-L-I-N-E, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypersaline mean?
adjective
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Having an abnormally high salinity
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypersaline?
Hypersaline appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).
Hypersaline in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having an abnormally high salinity:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hypersalin |
| Portuguese | hipersalino |
| Spanish | hipersalino |
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 hypersaline come from?
From hyper- + saline.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).