hypnic
/ˈhɪpnɪk/adjective, noun
hypnic is an adjective meaning “That induces sleep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-N-I-C, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypnic mean?
adjective
- 1
That induces sleep.
noun
- 1
Any sleep-inducing drug.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypnic?
- /ˈhɪpnɪk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypnic
- more hypnic comparative
- most hypnic superlative
- hypnics plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypnic?
Hypnic appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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 hypnic come from?
From hypno- + -ic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).