We introduce a family of hypergroups, called weakly complete, generalizing the construction of complete hypergroups. Starting from a given group G, our construction prescribes the β-classes of the hypergroups and allows some hyperproducts not to be complete parts, based on a suitably defined relation over G. The commutativity degree of weakly complete hypergroups can be related to that of the underlying group. Furthermore, in analogy to the degree of commutativity, we introduce the degree of completeness of finite hypergroups and analyze this degree for weakly complete hypergroups in terms of their β-classes.
