Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hypercompetent

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hy-per-com-pe-tent
IPA

28

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Very highly competent.

Example Sentences

"In doing so, she stood for the writer not as a special case — a neurotic creature always on the verge of a nervous breakdown — but as a hypercompetent Everywoman adroitly running her life."

Etymology

From hyper- + competent.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: hyper

Inflected Forms

more hypercompetent (comparative) most hypercompetent (superlative)

Questions

What does hypercompetent mean?: Very highly competent.
Where does hypercompetent come from?: From hyper- + competent.

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