over my dead body
/oʊ.vɚ maɪ dɛd bɑ.di/
"over-my-dead-body" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“over my dead body” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a prep_phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Under no circumstances; absolutely not.
Corpus desk
Index EN-over-my-dead-body · over my dead body · English
over my dead body · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "O" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | over my dead body |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Prep_phrase |
| IPA | /oʊ.vɚ maɪ dɛd bɑ.di/ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “over my dead body” in English
Rare enough to double-check
over my dead body is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aprep_phrase, transcribed /oʊ.vɚ maɪ dɛd bɑ.di/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Under no circumstances; absolutely not.".
over my dead body has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is over my dead body, spelled O-V-E-R- -M-Y- -D-E-A-D- -B-O-D-Y.
Definition
- 1Under no circumstances; absolutely not.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how over my dead body appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Can I get a new sports car?" "Over my dead body!"
“An’ now I hear you’re sendin’ our flagship Pastores out at four o’clock this afternoon with another cock-eyed cross between a giraffe an’ a Gila monster— / “By my soul, never!” yells th’ G.P.A., jumpin’ up like a bumb has gone off under him. “If the Pastores sails with that red-skirted gorilless aboard, it’ll be over my dead body!”
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.