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overshare

verb, noun

overshare is spelled O-V-E-R-S-H-A-R-E: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, overshare means “To share too much or in excess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in overshare?

Letters9: O-V-E-R-S-H-A-R-E
In writingabout once in every 15 million words; the 115,751st 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 overshare?

Overshare appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 overshare?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-overshare.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of overshare

  • overshares present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • oversharing participle, present
  • overshared participle, past

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

What does overshare mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To share too much or in excess.

  2. 2

    To offer inappropriate disclosure concerning one's personal life to others, now especially on social media.

noun

  1. 1

    An instance of sharing or divulging too much.

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

Overshare in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to offer inappropriate disclosure:

LanguageWords
Germanausplaudern

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 overshare come from?

From over- + share.

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

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