Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overcomplicated

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables: over-com-pli-cat-ed
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

excessively complicated

verb

simple past and past participle of overcomplicate

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- English complicated English overcomplicated From over- + complicated.

Inflected Forms

more overcomplicated (comparative) most overcomplicated (superlative)

Derived Forms

overcomplicatedly overcomplicatedness

Questions

What does overcomplicated mean?: excessively complicated
Where does overcomplicated 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- English complicated English overcomplicated From over- + complicated.

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