overshot
/ˈəʊ.vəˌʃɒt/
"overshot" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overshot” is uncommon English (frequency #58,913 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,913
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of overshoot
Corpus desk
Index EN-overshot · overshot · English
overshot · rank #58,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overexpression
Nearest frequency peer: overexpression (-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 “overshot”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- outsold
outsold
41,091 corpus weight
- overcharging
overcharging
41,090 corpus weight
- overexpress…
overexpression
41,089 corpus weight
- overshot
overshot
41,088 corpus weight
- pacey
pacey
41,087 corpus weight
- paean
paean
41,085 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overshot” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overshot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈəʊ.vəˌʃɒt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overshot” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overshot is uncommon English at frequency #58,913 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈəʊ.vəˌʃɒt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of overshoot".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for overshot, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is overshot, spelled O-V-E-R-S-H-O-T.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of overshoot
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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