okeyvsoverTell them apart

Quick tell: okey is a noun, over is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“okey” is a noun and “over” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#40,821
“okey” frequency rank
#88
“over” frequency rank
40909
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature okey over
Definition A Turkish game in which players attempt to collect certain groups of tiles. Finished; ended; concluded.

Letter map: okey vs over

Shared letters muted; letters that set okey and over apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. okey (VCVV) and over (VCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

4 ch
okey
4 ch
over

Grammar separator: okey vs over

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: okey is anoun and overanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 40909, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

okey is recorded at frequency rank #40,821, classified as anoun. over is at rank #88, tagged as anadj, pronounced /ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 40909, this pair ranks #263,306 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of okey vs over

Shared letters: eo. Private to "okey": ky. Private to "over": rv.

"okey" · 4 letters · shape VCVV  ·  "over" · 4 letters · shape VCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • okey ← koey · oeky · okeyy · okkey · okye
  • over ← oevr · overr · ovre · ovver · voer

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "okey" for "over" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "okey" is a noun and "over" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary English text, does "okey" or "over" show up more?
"over" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #88 in our English list, against #40,821 for "okey". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

Done with this confusable. These links stay specific to "okey" and "over".

  • Full dictionary entry for "okey" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "over" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #263,306 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "okey" and "over" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "okey vs oki". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #263,306 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list