mishyphenate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.
Example Sentences
- "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") ."