Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overfitting

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.75 in modern English

Syllables: over-fit-ting
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of overfit

noun

The production of a statistical model that, due to an excess of parameters relative to the sample size, fits the sample data extremely well but fails to fit new data.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

overfittings (plural)

Questions

What does overfitting mean?: present participle and gerund of overfit

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