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hypercorrections

hypercorrections is the plural of hypercorrection.

Meaning of hypercorrection

Noun

hypercorrection (countable and uncountable, plural hypercorrections)

  1. Nonstandard language use that results from the overapplication of a perceived prescriptive rule.
  2. A nonstandard form so used.
    Synonyms:
    hypercorrectism

Questions about hypercorrections

What is hypercorrections the plural of?
Hypercorrections is the plural of hypercorrection.

Words near hypercorrections in the dictionary

  1. hypercorporatized
  2. hypercorrect
  3. hypercorrected
  4. hypercorrecting
  5. hypercorrection
  6. hypercorrections
  7. hypercorrectism
  8. hypercorrectisms
  9. hypercorrective
  10. hypercorrectively
  11. hypercorrectly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypercorrections (page history and authors); hypercorrection (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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