overgrowth

Other forms of overgrowth

plural

overgrowths·

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 overgrowth

What does overgrowth mean?

overgrowth means "excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overgrowth?

overgrowth has 3 syllables: o-ver-growth. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚɡɹoʊθ/.

What is another word for overgrowth?

Close synonyms include giantism, gigantism. 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 overgrowth a common word?

overgrowth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.