overt
/ə(ʊ)ˈvɜːt/
"overt" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overt” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,408. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,408
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Open and not concealed or secret.
Corpus desk
Index EN-overt · overt · English
overt · rank #19,408 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,408
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH Ortiz
Nearest frequency peer: Ortiz (-2 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “overt”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Olga
Olga
80,597 corpus weight
- Olson
Olson
80,596 corpus weight
- Ortiz
Ortiz
80,595 corpus weight
- overt
overt
80,593 corpus weight
- paisley
paisley
80,591 corpus weight
- pajamas
pajamas
80,590 corpus weight
What this shows “overt” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ə(ʊ)ˈvɜːt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #19,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “overt”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around overt (IPA /ə(ʊ)ˈvɜːt/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #19,408 among 1,431 “O” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for overt, with forms such as "oevrt", "overrt", and "overtt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "overtly", "Overton", "over", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) (modern French ouvert), past participle of Anglo-Norman, … The correct English form is overt, spelled O-V-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Open and not concealed or secret.
- 2Disclosed.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how overt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The buſineſs of Overt-Acts is, where the Compaſſing and Imagining the King's Death is the Crime and Queſtion, and this muſt be diſcover'd by Overt-Acts. But if the Treaſon be falſifying of the King's Money, this is Treaſon, but there can be no Overt-Act of that, for that is an Overt-Act in it ſelf; but there muſt be an Overt-Act to prove the Compaſſing an…
[T]he essence of a sale in a market overt is, that the goods should be openly exposed in the ordinary way, and also that the whole transaction should take place there, and at one time. If a man make a contract for certain goods which are not in market overt, and subsequently the goods are delivered, and the property ultimately passes in market overt, that…
Etymology
From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) (modern French ouvert), past participle of Anglo-Norman, Old French ovrir, ouvrir, uvrir (“to open”), from Late Latin operire, variant of Latin aperīre (“to open”), from aperiō (“to open, uncover”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; from”) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”). The English word is a doublet of apert and ouvert.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- oevrt
- overrt
- overtt
- ovetr
- ovret
- ovvert
- voert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of overt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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