Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overthinking

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.85 in modern English

Syllables
over-think-ing
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of overthink

noun

The act of thinking too much about something.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

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What does overthinking mean?
present participle and gerund of overthink

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