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overpack

verb, noun

overpack is a verb meaning “To pack too much” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-V-E-R-P-A-C-K, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does overpack mean?

verb

  1. 1

    To pack too much.

noun

  1. 1

    A container intended to hold smaller containers.

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

Forms of overpack

  • overpacks present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • overpacking participle, present
  • overpacked participle, past

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

How common is overpack?

Overpack appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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 overpack come from?

From over- + pack.

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