overkill

What does overkill mean?

overkill means "the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overkill?

overkill has 3 syllables: o-ver-kill. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌkɪl/.

Is overkill a common word?

overkill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with overkill?

1 word rhymes with overkill. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for overkill come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.