overdid
/ˌəʊ.vəˈdɪd/
"overdid" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overdid” is uncommon English (frequency #77,058 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,058
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past of overdo
Corpus desk
Index EN-overdid · overdid · English
overdid · rank #77,058 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,058
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overcook
Nearest frequency peer: overcook (-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 “overdid”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- operant
operant
22,950 corpus weight
- Osho
Osho
22,946 corpus weight
- overcook
overcook
22,944 corpus weight
- overdid
overdid
22,943 corpus weight
- overdramatic
overdramatic
22,942 corpus weight
- overdressed
overdressed
22,941 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overdid” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overdid |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˌəʊ.vəˈdɪd/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,058 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overdid” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overdid is uncommon English at frequency #77,058 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˌəʊ.vəˈdɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past of overdo".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for overdid, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is overdid, spelled O-V-E-R-D-I-D.
Definition
- 1simple past of overdo
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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