Word.ws English Dictionary

mishyphenates

mishyphenates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 mishyphenates

What is mishyphenates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mishyphenates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mishyphenate.

Words near mishyphenates in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mishyphenates (page history and authors); mishyphenate (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mishyphenates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mishyphenates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.