"mishyphenate" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: mishyphenates [present, singular, third-person], mishyphenating [participle, present], mishyphenated [participle, past], mishyphenated [past]
Etymology: From mis- + hyphenate. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|hyphenate}} mis- + hyphenate Head templates: {{en-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.

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From mis- + hyphenate.",
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          "ref": "1988, Richard Rubinstein, Digital Typography, page 187:",
          "text": "Good hyphenators strongly prefer Type II errors over Type I; they find fewer possibilities, but they rarely mishyphenate a word.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 January 1, “Product Comparison”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 1, page 51:",
          "text": "It did not mishyphenate any words, but it missed more hyphenation opportunities than any other program (20).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Sipapu - Volumes 25-26, page 14:",
          "text": "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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          "text": "Good hyphenators strongly prefer Type II errors over Type I; they find fewer possibilities, but they rarely mishyphenate a word.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1990 January 1, “Product Comparison”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 1, page 51:",
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        },
        {
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