Mishyphenate
"Mishyphenate" in a Sentence (3 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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