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overhit

verb

overhit is spelled O-V-E-R-H-I-T: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, overhit means “To hit too far or too hard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in overhit?

Letters7: O-V-E-R-H-I-T
In writingabout once in every 56 million words; the 234,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is overhit?

Overhit appears about once in every 56 million words in written English, the 234,209th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of overhit

  • overhits present, singular, he/she/it
  • overhitting participle, present

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does overhit mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To hit too far or too hard.

    The golfer overhit his shot onto the green, and it rolled into the bunker.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does overhit come from?

From over- + hit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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