overreach

Other forms of overreach

past tense

overreached·

present participle

overreaching·

third person

overreaches·

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 overreach

What does overreach mean?

overreach means "fail by aiming too high or trying too hard". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in overreach?

overreach has 3 syllables: o-ver-reach. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈoʊvɚˌɹitʃ/.

What is another word for overreach?

Close synonyms include outwit, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent. 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 overreach a common word?

overreach 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.

What rhymes with overreach?

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