Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

oversalt

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-salt
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To add too much salt to (something)

Example Sentences

"On one occasion the caldo verde succeeded admirably, flavors and texture nicely balanced; on another, the sausage had unaccountably been omitted and the broth oversalted."
"We oversugar, oversalt. We stimulate our tongues with spices and artificial sweeteners, our noses with artificial flavors, our eyes with artificial brilliant dyes. These are not things that nature has made, necessarily, although she provided the raw materials. They are superstimulants that humans have made or found."

Etymology

From over- + salt.

Inflected Forms

oversalts (present, singular) oversalting (participle, present) oversalted (participle, past) oversalted (past)

Questions

What does oversalt mean?: To add too much salt to (something)
Where does oversalt come from?: From over- + salt.

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