overqualified
"overqualified" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overqualified” is uncommon English (frequency #70,983 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,983
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.
Corpus desk
Index EN-overqualified · overqualified · English
overqualified · rank #70,983 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,983
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overexposed
Nearest frequency peer: overexposed (-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 “overqualified”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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outbuilding
29,022 corpus weight
- outflank
outflank
29,021 corpus weight
- overexposed
overexposed
29,019 corpus weight
- overqualifi…
overqualified
29,018 corpus weight
- pagination
pagination
29,015 corpus weight
- paintwork
paintwork
29,014 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overqualified” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overqualified |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #70,983 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overqualified” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overqualified is uncommon English at frequency #70,983 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for overqualified in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From over- + qualified. The correct English form is overqualified, spelled O-V-E-R-Q-U-A-L-I-F-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) job.
Etymology
From over- + qualified.
This word in other languages
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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