Meaning of mishyphenate | Babel Free

Definitions

To hyphenate a word at an inappropriate point, especially one that is not between two syllables.

Examples

“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") .”

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