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— English words —

• 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.

— In Dutch —

• hypercorrect bijv. (Taalkunde) (van woordvormen) foutief uit vrees voor vermeende…

— In French —

• hypercorrect adj.m. Très correct.
• hypercorrect adj.m. (Linguistique) En parlant d’une forme linguistique, construite…
• hypercorrect adj.m. (Sociolinguistique) Qui est dû au phénomène d’hypercorrection.

19 English words from 3 English definitions

Alternative because because␣of belief change form Grammar hypercorrect idea mistaken nonstandard of␣a phrase standard that the Transitive usage word

5 English words from 4 foreign definitions

correct est forme hypercorrection van

14 foreign words from 4 foreign definitions

construite foutief linguistique parlant phénomène Qui Sociolinguistique Taalkunde Très uit une voor vrees woordvormen

13 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

hypercorrects hypercorrected hypercorrectly hypercorrecting hypercorrection hypercorrectism hypercorrective hyper-corrective hypercorrections hypercorrectisms hypercorrectness hyper-correctness hypercorrectively

36 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cor CoR COR cor- cor. Cor. Corr corr. Corr. Corre correct ECT ect. Erc ERC hyp HYP hyp- hyp. hype hyper hyper- Orr ORR per PER per- per. Per. perc Perc perc. rec rec. rect rect-

21 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CER Cerro CRE crep crepy crêpy err Err. OCR ocre rep Rep REP Rep. roc RoC ROC R.O.C. R.␣O.␣C. tce TCE

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

hypercorrects

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