overcapitalise

Other forms of overcapitalise

past tense

overcapitalised·

present participle

overcapitalising·

third person

overcapitalises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overcapitalise

What does overcapitalise mean?

overcapitalise means "estimate the capital value of (a company) at an unreasonably or unlawfully high level". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overcapitalise?

overcapitalise has 6 syllables: o-ver-ca-pi-ta-lise. The stress falls on "pi".

What is another word for overcapitalise?

Close synonyms include overcapitalize, overcapitalize, overcapitalize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overcapitalise a common word?

overcapitalise is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.