hypnagogic
/ˌhɪpnəˈɡɑd͡ʒɪk/adjective
hypnagogic is spelled H-Y-P-N-A-G-O-G-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is hynagogic: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 55 of all searches for the word. Hypnagogic is an adjective meaning “That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous”.
How do you spell hypnagogic?
Hypnagogic is spelled H-Y-P-N-A-G-O-G-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 55 of the searches for hypnagogic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does hypnagogic mean?
adjective
- 1
That induces sleep; soporific, somniferous.
- 2
That accompanies falling asleep; especially, pertaining to the semi-conscious period immediately preceding sleep.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypnagogic?
- UK /ˌhɪpnəˈɡɒdʒɪk/
- UK /-ɡɪk/
- US /ˌhɪpnəˈɡɑd͡ʒɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-hypnagogic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hypnagogic
- more hypnagogic comparative
- most hypnagogic superlative
- hypnogogic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypnagogic?
Hypnagogic appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th 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).
Hypnagogic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense that induces sleep:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hypnagogique |
| Spanish | hipnagógico |
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 hypnagogic come from?
From French hypnagogique, from Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”) + ἀγωγός (agōgós, “leading”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).