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hypopigmentation

noun

hypopigmentation is a noun meaning “Abnormally reduced pigmentation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-O-P-I-G-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 45 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hypopigmentation is hypopigmentations.

What does hypopigmentation mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Abnormally reduced pigmentation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of hypopigmentation

  • hypopigmentations plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is hypopigmentation?

Hypopigmentation appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 hypopigmentation come from?

From hypo- + pigmentation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).