English Words: O
15,494 words · Page 289 of 310
To weary (someone or something) excessively; to exhaust or tire out by working too much.
The range of ideas that the public will accept, i.e. those ideas that are not considered too extreme or radical.
A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.
To trade beyond one's capital; to buy goods beyond the means of paying for or selling them
To translate (language) in too much detail, or including the translation of things that should be left as they are.
To put too many traps in (an area) or among (an animal population), and thus to trap too many (animals, for their population to recover).
To subject to excessive medical treatment, often to such an extent as to cause adverse effects.
An inaccurately high prehospital triage value assigned to a set of symptoms or an injury, assessing it as being more severe or traumatic than it truly is; the administrative or societal burden caused by such miscalibration, such as wait times in emergency departments.
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English alphabetical index for the letter O contains 15,494 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 310 pages, and you are currently viewing page 289. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "O" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.