oversupply

Other forms of oversupply

plural

oversupplies·

past tense

oversupplied·

present participle

oversupplying·

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 oversupply

What does oversupply mean?

oversupply means "the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oversupply?

oversupply has 4 syllables: o-ver-sup-ply. The stress falls on "ply". In IPA it is /ˌoʊvɚsəˈplaɪ/.

What is another word for oversupply?

Close synonyms include glut, surfeit, flood, glut. 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 oversupply a common word?

oversupply 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.

What rhymes with oversupply?

8 words rhyme with oversupply. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.