overincarceration
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When we put a stop to the overincarceration, crime did not spike and there was a remarkably low felony rearrest rate of 4 percent a year for people who completed probation."
- "Under his [Joe Biden's] administration, rather than movement toward the end of a system of over-incarceration, we are instead witnessing the beginning of a new prison “boom.”"
Etymology
From over- + incarceration.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over