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 |
|---|---|
| bowboy | bow-boy, Cupid |
| bowermaiden | bower-maiden, a lady's maid |
| bowermay | bower-may, a bower-maiden |
| bowlderhead | bowlder-head (boulder-head) |
| bowpin | bow-pin |
| bowstaff | bow-staff |
| bowwort | bow-wort, a plant name |
| boxbush | box-bush |
| bradmaker | brad-maker |
| brainache | brain-ache |
| braincap | brain-cap, the skull-cap |
| brainstone | brain-stone, a brain coral |
| brainwater | brain-water, cerebrospinal fluid |
| brainwood | brain-wood |
| brakehand | brake-hand, a brakeman |
| brakehead | brake-head |
| brakemaking | brake-making |
| brakeroot | brake-root, the rootstock of bracken |
| branchman | branch-man, fireman holding the hose branch |
| branchstand | branch-stand |
| brandyman | brandy-man, a seller of brandy |
| brantcorn | brant-corn, blighted or burnt grain |
| braystone | bray-stone, a stone for braying or grinding |
| breadearner | bread-earner |
| breadearning | bread-earning |
| breadthriders | breadth-riders |
| breakax | break-ax, a hard tropical tree |
| breakaxe | break-axe, a hard tropical tree |
| breakerman | breaker-man, worker at a coal breaker |
| breakermen | breaker-men |
| breakover | break-over |
| breakweather | break-weather, a screen against weather |
| breastmark | breast-mark |
| breastpiece | breast-piece |
| breastplow | breast-plow, a turf-cutting spade |
| breastweed | breast-weed, the lizard's-tail plant |
| breastwood | breast-wood, shoots growing out from a wall tree |
| breathseller | breath-seller |
| breechesflower | breeches-flower, Dutchman's breeches |
| bribemonger | bribe-monger |
| brickcroft | brick-croft, a field where bricks are made |
| brickliner | brick-liner |
| bricklining | brick-lining |
| brickmason | brick-mason |
| brickred | brick-red |
| brickset | brick-set, a bricklayer's bolster chisel |
| bricksetter | brick-setter |
| bricktimber | brick-timber |
| bridebowl | bride-bowl, the bridal cup |
| bridecup | bride-cup |
| bridegod | bride-god, Hymen |
| bridehouse | bride-house, house of the wedding feast |
| brideknot | bride-knot, a wedding favor of ribbon |
| bridelace | bride-lace, ribbon worn at a wedding |
| bridemaiden | bride-maiden, a bridesmaid |
| bridestake | bride-stake, the maypole of a wedding |
| bridgebote | bridge-bote, the duty of repairing bridges |
| bridgepot | bridge-pot, beam bearing a mill's bridge-tree |
| bridgewall | bridge-wall, furnace wall behind the grate |
| bridgeway | bridge-way |
| bridleman | bridle-man |
| brierroot | brier-root |
| brierwood | brier-wood |
| brigsail | brig-sail |
| brinehouse | brine-house, a salt-works building |
| bristlewort | bristle-wort |
| brittlewood | brittle-wood, a brittle-stemmed tree |
| brittlewort | brittle-wort, a diatom |
| broadgage | broad-gage, broad-gauge |
| broadhearted | broad-hearted |
| broadthroat | broad-throat |
| broadwife | broad-wife, US, a slave wife living elsewhere |
| broadwives | broad-wives |
| bronchobuster | broncho-buster, older spelling of bronco |
| broncobusting | bronco-busting |
| broodsac | brood-sac |
| brookflower | brook-flower |
| broomroot | broom-root |
| broomshank | broom-shank |
| broomwood | broom-wood |
| broomwort | broom-wort |
| browache | brow-ache |
| brownprint | brown-print |
| brownweed | brown-weed |
| browpiece | brow-piece |
| browpost | brow-post |
| browsick | brow-sick |
| brushball | brush-ball |
| brushbird | brush-bird |
| brushbush | brush-bush |
| brushpopper | brush-popper |
| buckass | buck-ass, a male ass |
| buckeyed | buck-eyed |
| buckplate | buck-plate |
| buckpot | buck-pot, a pot for bucking clothes |
| buckwash | buck-wash, to wash in lye |
| buckwasher | buck-washer |
| buckwashing | buck-washing |
| buddleman | buddle-man, a miner working a buddle |
| buffalofish | buffalo-fish |
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