overbite
/ˈəʊvə(ɹ)baɪt/
"overbite" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overbite” is uncommon English (frequency #83,588 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,588
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.
Corpus desk
Index EN-overbite · overbite · English
overbite · rank #83,588 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,588
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overachiever
Nearest frequency peer: overachiever (-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 “overbite”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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16,419 corpus weight
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16,417 corpus weight
- overachiever
overachiever
16,414 corpus weight
- overbite
overbite
16,413 corpus weight
- overcapacity
overcapacity
16,412 corpus weight
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Palouse
16,406 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overbite” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overbite |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)baɪt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overbite” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overbite is uncommon English at frequency #83,588 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)baɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for overbite, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From over- + bite. The correct English form is overbite, spelled O-V-E-R-B-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1A malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend over the lower ones.
Etymology
From over- + bite.
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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