Hypercorrect

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or marked by hypercorrection.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage
  • v. To change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
  • Word Usage
    "It was a nonstandard usage that some grammarians would call "hypercorrect" because the error was made by trying too hard to be correct."
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