overtired
"overtired" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overtired” is uncommon English (frequency #91,896 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,896
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Overly tired
Corpus desk
Index EN-overtired · overtired · English
overtired · rank #91,896 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,896
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overpressure
Nearest frequency peer: overpressure (-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 “overtired”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Ovaltine
Ovaltine
8,110 corpus weight
- overpressure
overpressure
8,106 corpus weight
- overtired
overtired
8,105 corpus weight
- Ozaki
Ozaki
8,104 corpus weight
- paedo
paedo
8,102 corpus weight
- Pangu
Pangu
8,101 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overtired” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overtired |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #91,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overtired” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overtired is uncommon English at frequency #91,896 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Overly tired".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for overtired, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is overtired, spelled O-V-E-R-T-I-R-E-D.
Definition
- 1Overly tired
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how overtired appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"I am a little overtired by my drive, my dear," said he, creeping from the blaze of daylight towards a snug sofa beside the fireplace.
"Today is what day?" I asked. "It's Monday, Caelum. Monday, the nineteenth." "Monday. Yeah, that's right. I'm a little disoriented." "Well, that's understandable. You were travelling all day yesterday. Plus, the time change. And you're probably overtired on top of that."
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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