overworking
"overworking" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“overworking” is uncommon English (frequency #85,612 among 1,431 “O” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,612
- frequency rank, English
- 1,431
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of overwork
Corpus desk
Index EN-overworking · overworking · English
overworking · rank #85,612 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,612
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,431
- PHOTO-FINISH overmatched
Nearest frequency peer: overmatched (-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 “overworking”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ossification
ossification
14,395 corpus weight
- outran
outran
14,393 corpus weight
- overconsump…
overconsumption
14,392 corpus weight
- overgrazing
overgrazing
14,391 corpus weight
- overmatched
overmatched
14,390 corpus weight
- overworking
overworking
14,389 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “overworking” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | overworking |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #85,612 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “overworking” in English
Rare enough to double-check
overworking is uncommon English at frequency #85,612 among 1,431 “O” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of overwork".
overworking doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is overworking, spelled O-V-E-R-W-O-R-K-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of overwork
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how overworking appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moreover, the problem was accentuated by the overworking of the assets of the railways in the second world war.
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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