Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overscale

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-scale
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Out of scale; much too large for the context in which it exists

Example Sentences

"A wildly overscale concrete canopy juts over the main entry plaza."

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *skend-der. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂ Proto-Italic *skand-slā Latin scālabor. Middle English scale English scale English overscale From over- + scale.

Frequently Paired Words

overscaling

Synonyms

overscaled

Rhymes With

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Questions

What does overscale mean?: Out of scale; much too large for the context in which it exists
Where does overscale come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- Proto-Indo-European *skend-der. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂ Proto-Italic *skand-slā Latin scālabor. Middle English scale English scale English overscale From over- + scale.

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