overlie

Questions about overlie

What does overlie mean?

overlie means "lie upon; lie on top of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overlie?

overlie has 3 syllables and divides as o-ver-lie under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for overlie?

Close synonyms include overlay. 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 overlie a common word?

overlie 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.