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There are 9 words containing ERCORREC

OVERCORRECT• overcorrect v. To correct too sharply or too much.
• OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess.
HYPERCORRECT• hypercorrect adj. (Grammar) Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.
• hypercorrect v. (Transitive) To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
• hyper-correct adj. Alternative form of hypercorrect.
OVERCORRECTS• overcorrects v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overcorrect.
• OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess.
OVERCORRECTED• overcorrected v. Simple past tense and past participle of overcorrect.
• OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess.
HYPERCORRECTLY• hypercorrectly adv. In a hypercorrect manner.
• HYPERCORRECT adv. refers to a linguistic construction or pronunciation produced by mistaken analogy with standard usage out of a desire to be correct, such as "open widely" or "on behalf of my wife and I".
OVERCORRECTING• overcorrecting v. Present participle of overcorrect.
• OVERCORRECT v. to correct to excess.
OVERCORRECTION• overcorrection n. The correction of something to an excessive degree.
• OVERCORRECTION n. excessive correction.
HYPERCORRECTION• hypercorrection n. (Linguistics) Nonstandard language use that results from the over-application of a perceived prescriptive rule.
• hypercorrection n. (Linguistics) A nonstandard form so used.
• HYPERCORRECTION n. a grammatical, usage or pronunciation mistake made by 'correcting' something that's right to begin with.
OVERCORRECTIONS• overcorrections n. Plural of overcorrection.
• OVERCORRECTION n. excessive correction.

Scrabble words — in black are valid world wide — in RED are not valid in North America — in GREEN are valid only in North America.
Definitions are short excerpt from the WikWik.org and 1Word.ws.

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  • English Wiktionary: 28 words
  • Scrabble in French: 6 words
  • Scrabble in Spanish: no word
  • Scrabble in Italian: no word
  • Scrabble in German: no word
  • Scrabble in Romanian: no word


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