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There are 3 words containing YPERCOR| 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. | | 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". | | 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. |
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.
See this list for:- English Wiktionary: 29 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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