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mishyphenating

mishyphenating is the present participle and gerund 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 mishyphenating

What is mishyphenating the present participle and gerund of?
Mishyphenating is the present participle and gerund of mishyphenate.

Words near mishyphenating in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mishyphenating (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.

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