hyphenator

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

One who, or that which, hyphenates.

"The greatest hyphenator ever was Shakespeare (or Shak-speare in some contemporary spellings) because he was so busy adding new words, many of them compounds, to English: “sea-change,” “leap-frog,” “bare-faced,” “fancy-free.”"

From hyphenate + -or.

hyphenators (plural)

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