Error Words
We're sure about this one.
A hyphenated word run together into one string.
This is the biggest single error in the list, more than twice the size of typos. knockemdown is knock-em-down, allround is all-round, filmmake is film-make.
Nobody who wrote the dictionary got these wrong. The hyphen was removed when the word list was cut down to letters only.
4,861 words · sorted A to Z · each with a line on why it is here
Matches the word itself, not the note beside it. Case does not matter.
| Word, sorted Z to A | With the hyphen back |
|---|---|
| alebush | ale-bush (alehouse sign) |
| alecup | ale-cup |
| alefnull | alef-null (aleph-null) |
| alefzero | alef-zero (aleph-zero) |
| aleknight | ale-knight (a tippler) |
| alephzero | aleph-zero |
| aleshot | ale-shot (alehouse reckoning) |
| aletap | ale-tap |
| aleyard | ale-yard (yard-of-ale glass) |
| allround | all-round |
| almsmoney | alms-money |
| aloeroot | aloe-root |
| alroot | al-root |
| alumbloom | alum-bloom |
| ambushlike | ambush-like |
| amesaces | ames-aces |
| amethystlike | amethyst-like |
| anarchoindividualist | anarcho-individualist |
| anarchosocialist | anarcho-socialist |
| anatomicochirurgical | anatomico-chirurgical |
| angeleyes | angel-eyes |
| anglehook | angle-hook |
| anglepod | angle-pod |
| anglepods | angle-pods |
| anglesmith | angle-smith |
| angletouch | angle-touch (earthworm) |
| angulatogibbous | angulato-gibbous |
| angulatosinuous | angulato-sinuous |
| angulodentate | angulo-dentate |
| anklejack | ankle-jack |
| antinganting | anting-anting (Philippine amulet) |
| anviltop | anvil-top |
| anviltops | anvil-tops |
| apersee | a-per-se, the letter A alone; a paragon |
| aphislion | aphis-lion |
| appledrone | apple-drone |
| applenut | apple-nut |
| appleroot | apple-root |
| applesnits | apple-snits, dried apple slices |
| apronstring | apron-string |
| aquagreen | aqua-green |
| arcform | arc-form |
| archband | arch-band (band or fillet on an arch) |
| archform | arch-form |
| arglebargle | argle-bargle |
| arglebargled | argle-bargled |
| arglebargling | argle-bargling |
| argusfish | argus-fish (Scatophagus argus) |
| argusfishes | argus-fishes |
| armhoop | arm-hoop (an armlet) |
| armorplated | armor-plated |
| armorproof | armor-proof |
| armpad | arm-pad |
| arrowbush | arrow-bush (a shrub) |
| arrowplate | arrow-plate, arrowsmith's drawplate |
| arrowstone | arrow-stone, a belemnite |
| arsyversy | arsy-versy, backside foremost |
| artcraft | art-craft |
| artilleryship | artillery-ship, a gun-carrying vessel |
| arumlike | arum-like |
| ashberry | ash-berry (Mahonia, Oregon grape) |
| ashkey | ash-key, winged fruit of the ash |
| ashstone | ash-stone, a volcanic tuff |
| ashwort | ash-wort, a plant name |
| assheadedness | ass-headedness, stupidity |
| astrospherecentrosomic | astrosphere-centrosomic |
| athwarthawse | athwart-hawse |
| atlantoodontoid | atlanto-odontoid |
| atloidoaxoid | atloido-axoid |
| atoneness | at-one-ness |
| auldfarrantlike | auld-farrant-like |
| axbreaker | ax-breaker, a hard-wooded tree |
| axebreaker | axe-breaker, a hard-wooded tree |
| axemaster | axe-master, one expert with the axe |
| axfetch | ax-fetch, the plant Coronilla varia |
| axhammer | ax-hammer, a stone-dressing hammer |
| axhammered | ax-hammered, dressed with an ax-hammer |
| axlesmith | axle-smith |
| axmaker | ax-maker |
| axmaking | ax-making |
| axmaster | ax-master |
| baboonroot | baboon-root, the plant Babiana |
| babyhouse | baby-house, a doll's house |
| backbrand | back-brand, the backlog of a fire |
| backcap | back-cap, to disparage or cap a story |
| backflap | back-flap, a kind of hinge |
| backfold | back-fold |
| backframe | back-frame |
| backgeared | back-geared, of a machine tool |
| backhatch | back-hatch, a sluice or floodgate |
| backhooker | back-hooker |
| backjaw | back-jaw, impudent retort |
| backrope | back-rope, a nautical martingale stay |
| backropes | back-ropes, nautical stays |
| backscraper | back-scraper |
| backspringing | back-springing |
| backstrapped | back-strapped, held back by a current |
| backstring | back-string, string on a child's frock |
| backstrip | back-strip, strip on the back of a book |
| backswordsman | back-swordsman, fighter with a backsword |
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