# over

> English word · Adjective · IPA /ˈəʊ.və(ɹ)/ · frequency rank #88

## Definitions
1. Finished; ended; concluded.
2. Finished; ended; concluded.
3. Hopeless; irrecoverable.
4. Visiting one's home or other location.
5. Having surmounted an obstacle.
6. Having an excess in a particular respect.
7. Surplus to requirements.
8. Of a wrestler: generating a reaction from fans.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Proto-West Germanic *obar
Old English ofer
Middle English over
English over
From Middle English over, from Old English ofer, from Proto-West Germanic *obar, from Proto-Germanic *uber (“over”), from Proto-Indo-European *upér, related to *upó.
Akin to Scots ower (“over”), Yola oer, ower, owr (“over”), Saterland Frisian uur (“over”), West Frisian oer (“over, across”), Cimbrian übar (“over”), Dutch over (“over”), German ober, über, ueber (“over, above”), Limburgish euver, övver (“over”), Low German över, üöver (“over”), Luxembourgish iwwer (“over”), Mòcheno iber (“over”), Yiddish איבער (iber, “over”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål over (“over”), Faroese yvir (“over”), Icelandic yfir (“over”), Norwegian Nynorsk over, yver, yvi (“over”), Swedish över (“over”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂 (ufar, “over”), Latin super (“over, above”), Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér, “over, above”), Albanian upri (“group of peasants”), Waigali var, vari, Sanskrit उपरि (upári, “over”).
Doublet of uber, super, and hyper.

## Easily confused with
- **owe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-owe)
- **Owen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-owen)
- **owed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-owed)
- **oxen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-oxen)
- **Ovid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-ovid)
- **owner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-owner)
- **overt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-overt)
- **overly** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-overly)
- **overdo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/over-vs-overdo)
- **or** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/or-vs-over)
- **ov** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ov-vs-over)
- **OE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oe-vs-over)
- **one** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/one-vs-over)
- **our** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/our-vs-over)
- **ore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ore-vs-over)
- **ole** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ole-vs-over)
- **ode** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ode-vs-over)
- **OEM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/oem-vs-over)
- **Orr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/orr-vs-over)
- **ova** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ova-vs-over)

## Common misspellings (5)
`oevr`, `overr`, `ovre`, `ovver`, `voer`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/over