hyper
French, adverb/i.pɛʁ/
hyper is spelled H-Y-P-E-R (5 letters) and appears 23 times per million words in written French, the 3,391st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hyper is a French adverb meaning “very, a lot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Super, vachement bien, très”.
What does hyper mean in English?
adverb
- 1
informalvery, a lot
Tu es hyper sympa!
prefix
- 1
hyper-
- 2
informalmega- (extremely, incredibly, totally)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
prefix: 1. Indique le caractère extrême ou excessif d’une chose, d’un état, d’une personne. 2. Indique un niveau supérieur. 3. Concernant l’espace vectoriel à 4 dimensions ou plus, ou de dimension quelconque. 4. Indique un rapport au système de renvois, via des hyperliens permettant de passer directement d’une partie d’un document à une autre, ou d’un document à d’autres documents.
noun: 1. Hypermarché.
adverb: 1. Super, vachement bien, très.
verb: 1. Danser la hype. 2. Enthousiasmer.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hyper
- hypers plural
- ^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ\ singular plural
- avoir hypé infinitive past
- en hypant gerund present
- en ayant hypé gerund past
- hypant participle present
- hypé participle past
- je hype indicative present
- tu hypes indicative present
- il/elle/on hype indicative present
- nous hypons indicative present
- vous hypez indicative present
- ils/elles hypent indicative present
- j’ai hypé indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as hypé indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a hypé indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons hypé indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez hypé indicative past multiword-construction
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hyper?
- /i.pɛʁ/
- ^((h muet))\i.pɛʁ\
- \i.pɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hyper
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hyper in French?
hyper appears 23 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).