prevalent

• "prevailing winds"

Synonyms

• prevailingmost frequent or common
• predominantmost frequent or common; having superior power and influence
• dominant(music) the fifth note of the diatonic scale ; an allele that produces the same phenotype whether its paired allele is identical or different ; exercising influence or control; (of genes) producing the same phenotype whether its allele is identical or dissimilar ; most frequent or common
• rifemost frequent or common; excessively abundant