mishyphen

mis- +‎ hyphen

mishyphen (third-person singular simple present mishyphens, present participle mishyphening, simple past and past participle mishyphened)

1. (rare) Synonym of mishyphenate
   • 1864, Charles Cowden Clarke, Cassell's illustrated Shakespeare., page 279:

     The Folio prints this with these errors of transposition and mishyphening: ' the honey-heauy-dew.'

   • 1899 February 25, “Newspaper Medical Expressions”, in The Medical News, volume 74, page 241:

     Of the tentative way in which the President's medical attendant's name has been spelled and misspelled and dissevered and mishyphened, we shall say nothing.

   • 1930, William Ernest Harned, New Typewriting Studies: Complete Course:

     Every word omitted, inserted, mishyphened at the end of a line in the printed copy; but spelled, or in any manner changed from the printed copy if the entire word is written in one line in conformity with must be penalized.

• hyphenism