overrated
/ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪtɪd/adjective, verb
overrated is spelled O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is overated: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Overrated is an adjective meaning “Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity”.
How many letters and syllables are in overrated?
| Letters | 9: O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.3 times per million words; the 14,509th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, overated, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell overrated?
Overrated is spelled O-V-E-R-R-A-T-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for overrated in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is overrated?
Overrated appears 3.3 times per million words in written English, the 14,509th 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).
How do you pronounce overrated?
- UK /ˌəʊvəˈɹeɪtɪd/
Overrated has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-overrated.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with overrated
Also written: over-rated (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with overrated?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as overrated from its last stressed vowel (/eɪtɪd/, British pronunciation):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of overrated
- more overrated comparative
- most overrated superlative
- over-rated
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does overrated mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Given an undue amount of credit for quality or merit in a field; not necessarily related to popularity.
My sister is an overrated singer.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of overrate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Overrated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense rated too highly:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | surfait, surestimé, surcoté |
| German | überschätzt, überbewertet |
| Portuguese | sobrestimado |
| Spanish | sobrevalorado, sobreestimado, sobrevaluado, supervalorado |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does overrated come from?
From over- + rated.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).