overachiever
"overachiever" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overachiever” is uncommon English (frequency #83,587 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,587
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - One who overachieves; one who has too much success.
Corpus desk
Index EN-overachiever · overachiever · English
overachiever · rank #83,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,587
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overbite
Nearest frequency peer: overbite (+1 rank slots)
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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.
Long-tail ranks near “overachiever”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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16,419 corpus weight
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- overachiever
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16,414 corpus weight
- overbite
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16,413 corpus weight
- overcapacity
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16,412 corpus weight
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What this shows Long-tail view: where “overachiever” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overachiever |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #83,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overachiever” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overachiever is uncommon English at frequency #83,587 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who overachieves; one who has too much success.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for overachiever, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From overachieve + -er or over- + achiever. The correct English form is overachiever, spelled O-V-E-R-A-C-H-I-E-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1One who overachieves; one who has too much success.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how overachiever appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is the portrait of one of the great teacher-parents, a zealot of European high culture self-confidently at work before the time that turned such a parent into a selfish tyrant and such a child into an "overachiever," to use the philistine label which conveys the contemporary disdain for precocity and intellectual ardor.
But none of those is true for Mr. de Rothschild, who belongs instead to a multihyphened class of overachievers: eco-adventurer and green-evangelist.
Etymology
From overachieve + -er or over- + achiever.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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