hyperventilate
"hyperventilate" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hyperventilate” is uncommon English (frequency #90,561 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,561
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hyperventilate · hyperventilate · English
hyperventilate · rank #90,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,561
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hypothermic
Nearest frequency peer: hypothermic (+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 “hyperventilate”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- homi
homi
9,452 corpus weight
- hookworm
hookworm
9,451 corpus weight
- hurtle
hurtle
9,443 corpus weight
- hyperventil…
hyperventilate
9,440 corpus weight
- hypothermic
hypothermic
9,439 corpus weight
- impels
impels
9,432 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “hyperventilate” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hyperventilate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #90,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “hyperventilate” in English
Rare enough to double-check
hyperventilate is uncommon English at frequency #90,561 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.".
No misspelling variants are generated for hyperventilate in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From hyper- + ventilate. The correct English form is hyperventilate, spelled H-Y-P-E-R-V-E-N-T-I-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1To breathe quickly and deeply, especially at an abnormally rapid rate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how hyperventilate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
When I tried it, I hyperventilated.
Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost se…
Etymology
From hyper- + ventilate.
Synonyms
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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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