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 |
|---|---|
| fullbodied | full-bodied |
| fullerboard | fuller-board, a pressboard |
| fullface | full-face |
| fullfaces | full-faces |
| fullgrownness | full-grownness |
| fullmouth | full-mouth |
| fullmouthed | full-mouthed |
| fullmouthedly | full-mouthedly |
| fullterm | full-term |
| fumeroot | fume-root, fumitory |
| fundmonger | fund-monger |
| fundmongering | fund-mongering |
| funmaking | fun-making |
| furstone | fur-stone, boiler incrustation |
| furzetop | furze-top |
| gabelleman | gabelle-man, a salt-tax collector |
| gableended | gable-ended |
| gablewindowed | gable-windowed |
| gabrielrache | Gabriel-rache, Gabriel's hounds, the wild hunt |
| gadbush | gad-bush |
| gaintwist | gain-twist, increasing-twist rifling |
| galewort | gale-wort, bog myrtle |
| galleyman | galley-man |
| gallweed | gall-weed |
| gallwort | gall-wort, toadflax |
| ganderteeth | gander-teeth |
| gangflower | gang-flower, the milkwort |
| garbill | gar-bill, name for the garfish |
| garnetwork | garnet-work |
| gasboat | gas-boat, gasoline-engined boat |
| gascheck | gas-check, gun device to stop gas escape |
| gaslock | gas-lock, valve or lock for gas |
| gasmaker | gas-maker |
| gatemaker | gate-maker |
| gateworks | gate-works |
| gatewright | gate-wright, maker of gates |
| gauzewing | gauze-wing, a lacewing insect |
| gaycat | gay-cat, tramp slang for a novice hobo |
| gaywing | gay-wing, the fringed polygala |
| geejee | gee-gee, nursery word for a horse |
| gentlemouthed | gentle-mouthed |
| gereagle | gier-eagle, the biblical vulture |
| getatability | get-at-ability |
| getatableness | get-at-ableness |
| giantsize | giant-size |
| gibblegabble | gibble-gabble |
| gibblegabbler | gibble-gabbler |
| gibblegable | gibble-gable, var. of gibble-gabble |
| giddyberry | giddy-berry |
| giddybrain | giddy-brain |
| giddyhead | giddy-head |
| giddypate | giddy-pate |
| giffgaff | giff-gaff |
| gigback | gig-back |
| gigtree | gig-tree |
| gillbird | gill-bird, a local bird name |
| gilttail | gilt-tail, a yellow-tailed earthworm |
| gimbaljawed | gimbal-jawed |
| gimberjawed | gimber-jawed, with a jutting lower jaw |
| gimleteyed | gimlet-eyed |
| gingerberry | ginger-berry |
| gingerleaf | ginger-leaf |
| gingerspice | ginger-spice |
| gingerwork | ginger-work |
| gingerwort | ginger-wort, plant of the Zingiberaceae |
| ginhound | gin-hound, a gin drinker |
| gipsyhead | gipsy-head |
| girdlecake | girdle-cake, a griddle cake |
| gladeye | glad-eye |
| glareworm | glare-worm, a glow-worm |
| glassrope | glass-rope, the sponge Hyalonema |
| glassteel | glass-steel |
| glassweed | glass-weed, glasswort |
| glidewort | glide-wort, a plant name |
| glowfly | glow-fly, a firefly |
| glugglug | glug-glug |
| gnatflower | gnat-flower |
| gnatsnap | gnat-snap, cf. gnat-snapper |
| gnatsnapper | gnat-snapper, a gnatcatcher |
| goatbeard | goat-beard, the goatsbeard plant |
| goatbrush | goat-brush |
| goatland | goat-land |
| goatroot | goat-root, restharrow |
| goatstone | goat-stone, a bezoar from a goat |
| gobmouthed | gob-mouthed |
| godmaker | god-maker |
| godmaking | god-making |
| gogetting | go-getting |
| goldbird | gold-bird, the golden oriole |
| goldenhair | golden-hair (a fern or plant) |
| goldenknop | golden-knop, dial. the ladybird |
| goldenlocks | golden-locks (a plant) |
| goldenmouth | golden-mouth (Chrysostom) |
| goldenwing | golden-wing, the flicker woodpecker |
| goldflower | gold-flower (a plant) |
| goldmist | gold-mist (a garden plant) |
| goldtit | gold-tit (a bird) |
| goldweed | gold-weed |
| goodhumoredness | good-humoredness |
| goodnaturedness | good-naturedness |
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