overactive
"overactive" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overactive” is uncommon English (frequency #53,152 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,152
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excessively active.
Corpus desk
Index EN-overactive · overactive · English
overactive · rank #53,152 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,152
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH ostensible
Nearest frequency peer: ostensible (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “overactive”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- nunnery
nunnery
46,856 corpus weight
- Oregonian
Oregonian
46,852 corpus weight
- ostensible
ostensible
46,850 corpus weight
- overactive
overactive
46,849 corpus weight
- paves
paves
46,845 corpus weight
- Pde
Pde
46,843 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overactive” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overactive |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overactive” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overactive is uncommon English at frequency #53,152 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Excessively active.".
No misspelling variants are generated for overactive in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From over- + active. The correct English form is overactive, spelled O-V-E-R-A-C-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Excessively active.
Etymology
From over- + active.
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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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