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mishyphenated

mishyphenated is the simple past and past participle of mishyphenate.

Meaning of mishyphenate

Verb

mishyphenate (third-person singular simple present mishyphenates, present participle mishyphenating, simple past and past participle mishyphenated)

  1. 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.1988, Richard Rubinstein, Digital Typography, page 187

Questions about mishyphenated

What is mishyphenated the simple past and past participle of?
Mishyphenated is the simple past and past participle of mishyphenate.

Words near mishyphenated in the dictionary

  1. mishybridized
  2. mishybridizes
  3. mishybridizing
  4. mishyphen
  5. mishyphenate
  6. mishyphenated
  7. mishyphenates
  8. mishyphenating
  9. mishyphenation
  10. mishyphenations
  11. mishyphened

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