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mishyphenate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + hyphenate.

  1. derived from ὑφέν
  2. formed as hyphenate — “hyphen + -ate”
  3. prefixed as mishyphenate — “mis + hyphenate”

Definitions

  1. To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two…

    To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.

    • Good hyphenators strongly prefer Type II errors over Type I; they find fewer possibilities, but they rarely mishyphenate a word.
    • It did not mishyphenate any words, but it missed more hyphenation opportunities than any other program (20).
    • 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") .

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mishyphenate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA