overo
noun
overo is a noun meaning “A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-V-E-R-O, and it appears about once in every 56 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of overo is overos.
What does overo mean?
noun
- 1
A pinto horse with white-over-dark body markings.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of overo
- overos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is overo?
Overo 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).
Where does overo come from?
From Spanish overo (“piebald”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).