hypocorrect
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not completely correct; nonstandard.
verb
To undercorrect.
Example Sentences
- "They produce hypocorrect forms in an effort to speak nonstandard black English."
- "Despite being second dialect learners, hypocorrect speakers are reinforcing linguistic divergence."
- "This example also shows the combination of a hypocorrect construction with a “high” stylistic figure, that is, paronomasia (or figura etymologica—mafʿūl muțlaq)."
- "The surgeon can hypocorrect on the operating table, knowing that in the postoperative period an additional correction will result because of:..."
- "Dillard (1977) and Baugh (19S7; 1992) have also shown that upper-middle class African American college students hypocorrect in their use of AAE phonology and grammar."
- "Similarly, the change bh>mh can be seen as a form of assimilation where listeners hypocorrect and misassign the nasality from a nasal segment to the labial fricative segment."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more hypocorrect (comparative)
most hypocorrect (superlative)
hypocorrects (present, singular)
hypocorrecting (participle, present)
hypocorrected (participle, past)
hypocorrected (past)
Frequently Paired Words
hypocorrection