hyper- vs sur-

hyper-

prefix
  • intensely, extremely, or exceptional 

  • excessive 

  • existing in more than three spatial dimensions 

  • linked non-sequentially 

  • beyond 

  • over, above 

sur-

prefix
  • A syncopic variant of super-. 

How often have the words hyper- and sur- occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )