Providing distinction between overlapping state distributions of one or more multi cell memory devices is described herein. By way of example, a system can include a calculation component that can perform a mathematical operation on an identified, non-overlapped bit distribution and an overlapped bit distribution associated with the memory cell. Such mathematical operation can produce a resulting distribution that can facilitate identification by an analysis component of at least one overlapped bit distribution associated with cells of the one or more multi cell memory devices. Consequently, read errors associated with overlapped bits of a memory cell device can be mitigated.