overestimate
/ˌəʊvəɹˈɛstɪmeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.83 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I overestimated the number of attendees, and bought far too much food for the party."
- "Nevertheless, the role played by vertical transport (in particular, by biosedimentation) in self-purification of seas and oceans from chlorinated hydrocarbons must not be overestimated."
- "One must be especially careful when using Google to determine frequency as there is a very real risk of fantastically overestimating the frequency and subsequent importance of a term."
- "The employment projection for the metropolitan area for 1985 was an overestimate by about 12 percent."
- "The department pointed to a study it conducted in 2017 that found that, in some states, overestimates of utility costs were giving some people too many food stamps, while in others, people were getting too few."
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 estimate English overestimate From over- + estimate.