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 |
|---|---|
| backtender | back-tender, paper-machine assistant |
| backtenter | back-tenter, paper-machine assistant |
| backtrick | back-trick, a backward caper in dancing |
| badgerweed | badger-weed |
| baffleplate | baffle-plate |
| bagleaves | bag-leaves |
| bagnut | bag-nut |
| bagplant | bag-plant |
| bagpudding | bag-pudding, pudding boiled in a bag |
| bagreef | bag-reef, the lowest reef of a sail |
| bailwood | bail-wood, a timber tree |
| baldberry | bald-berry, a plant name |
| baldcrown | bald-crown, a plant name |
| balewort | bale-wort, a plant name |
| ballmine | ball-mine, nodular ironstone |
| balloonflower | balloon-flower (Platycodon) |
| ballweed | ball-weed, knapweed |
| bandcase | band-case, case for neckbands |
| bandcutter | band-cutter at a threshing machine |
| bandfile | band-file |
| bandfiled | band-filed |
| bandfiling | band-filing |
| bandworm | band-worm, a tapeworm |
| bangboard | bang-board on a husking wagon |
| bangup | bang-up |
| bankrider | bank-rider, one who patrols banks |
| bankweed | bank-weed, knapweed |
| bannerline | banner-line, a headline |
| bareknuckle | bare-knuckle |
| bareknuckled | bare-knuckled |
| bargestone | barge-stone in a gable coping |
| barkcutter | bark-cutter |
| barkpeel | bark-peel, to strip bark |
| barkstone | bark-stone, the beaver's castor gland |
| barleduc | bar-le-duc, a currant preserve |
| barleducs | bar-le-ducs |
| barleybird | barley-bird, the wryneck |
| barleysick | barley-sick, drunk |
| barlock | bar-lock |
| barmybrained | barmy-brained |
| barnman | barn-man |
| barnmen | barn-men |
| barrowcoat | barrow-coat, an infant's wrap |
| bartree | bar-tree, a wooden door-bar |
| basebred | base-bred, of low birth |
| baselevel | base-level (geology) |
| baseplug | base-plug |
| batfowl | bat-fowl, to catch birds at night |
| batfowled | bat-fowled |
| batfowls | bat-fowls |
| bathflower | bath-flower, the trillium |
| bathkol | bath-kol, the Hebrew divine voice |
| bathroot | bath-root, the trillium |
| bathwort | bath-wort, the trillium |
| batterdock | batter-dock, the yellow water-lily |
| batteryman | battery-man |
| battlepiece | battle-piece, a battle painting |
| battlestead | battle-stead, a battlefield |
| battycake | batty-cake, a patty-cake |
| baybolt | bay-bolt, a barbed bolt |
| baybush | bay-bush |
| baysmelt | bay-smelt |
| baysmelts | bay-smelts |
| beachdrops | beach-drops (a broomrape) |
| beachman | beach-man |
| beachmen | beach-men |
| beadeye | bead-eye |
| beadeyes | bead-eyes |
| beadflush | bead-flush |
| beadrow | bead-row (rosary) |
| beakerman | beaker-man |
| beakermen | beaker-men |
| beamfilling | beam-filling |
| beamman | beam-man |
| beamroom | beam-room |
| beamsman | beams-man (tannery worker) |
| beamsmen | beams-men |
| beancod | bean-cod (Portuguese fishing boat) |
| beansetter | bean-setter |
| bearbane | bear-bane |
| bearbush | bear-bush |
| bearfoot | bear-foot (hellebore) |
| bearfoots | bear-foots |
| beartongue | bear-tongue |
| beastbane | beast-bane |
| beaterman | beater-man |
| beatermen | beater-men |
| beaverroot | beaver-root |
| beckiron | beck-iron (bickern, anvil beak) |
| bedcap | bed-cap (nightcap) |
| bedcase | bed-case |
| beddingroll | bedding-roll |
| bedflower | bed-flower |
| bedfoot | bed-foot |
| bedlids | bed-lids |
| bednights | bed-nights |
| bedpad | bed-pad |
| bedscrew | bed-screw |
| bedsick | bed-sick |
| bedstring | bed-string |
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