oversearch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To search excessively.
Example Sentences
- "To oversearch the fearful ocean"
- "But people undersearch far more than they oversearch: We tend to explore situations less thoroughly than our own goals recommend!"
- "Oversearching: If you look long enough and hard enough for any particular pattern in a data set, the more you look, the more likely you are to find it—whether it's meaningful or not."
Etymology
From over- + search.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over