Mishyphenate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Mishyphenate is a verb meaning To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.
Meaning
To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.
Example Sentences
It did not mishyphenate any words, but it missed more hyphenation opportunities than any other program (20).
Good hyphenators strongly prefer Type II errors over Type I; they find fewer possibilities, but they rarely mishyphenate a word.
The initial story, “ In the presence of greatness: the Bukowski Barfly narrative," describes an encounter with “Hank” at the opening of Bukowski's movie, Barfly (we have this lamentable tendency to mishyphenate the word as “Barf - ly") .
Word Forms
- mishyphenates
- mishyphenating
- mishyphenated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mishyphen, mishybridize, mispunctuate, mishmash, mishew, mish-mash.
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