overcount

About 0.01 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To count more of something than are actually present, or to count one thing disproportionately more than another

   The census overcounted people in some neighborhoods, and undercounted them in others.

2. verb To outnumber.
3. noun An incorrect count that is too high.

Similar words

outcount overrepresent outsum overreport overdetect overclaim overproportion overrank overquantify overmultitude

Often followed by

of the in and

Word family

overcounted overcounting overcounts