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overladen

adjective, verb

overladen is spelled O-V-E-R-L-A-D-E-N: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, overladen means “Packed heavily, especially beyond normal capacity; overloaded” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in overladen?

Letters9: O-V-E-R-L-A-D-E-N
In writingabout once in every 83 million words; the 290,185th 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 overladen?

Overladen appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th 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).

What does overladen mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Packed heavily, especially beyond normal capacity; overloaded.

    The tray was overladen with food.

  2. 2

    Burdened excessively.

    The student is overladen with homework.

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of overlade (a form of overlade)

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

Where does overladen come from?

From over- + laden.

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

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