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 |
|---|---|
| goodtemperedness | good-temperedness |
| goosebeak | goose-beak |
| goosebill | goose-bill (cleavers, or a bird) |
| goosebird | goose-bird |
| goosebone | goose-bone |
| gooseflower | goose-flower |
| gooseliver | goose-liver |
| goosemouth | goose-mouth |
| gooserumped | goose-rumped |
| gopherberries | gopher-berries |
| gopherberry | gopher-berry |
| gopherman | gopher-man, a placer miner |
| gopherroot | gopher-root |
| gorefish | gore-fish, a name for the garfish |
| gorfly | gor-fly, a dung-fly |
| gorsebird | gorse-bird, the whinchat or linnet |
| gorsechat | gorse-chat, the whinchat |
| gorsehatch | gorse-hatch, the whinchat |
| gourdhead | gourd-head, a blockhead |
| gourounut | gourou-nut, the kola nut |
| grabman | grab-man, a bailiff's man or thief-taker |
| gradefinder | grade-finder, a levelling instrument |
| grademark | grade-mark |
| grainman | grain-man |
| grainsick | grain-sick, of cattle ill from grain |
| grainsickness | grain-sickness |
| grainsman | grains-man, a dealer in grain |
| grainsmen | grains-men |
| grainways | grain-ways, along the grain |
| granddada | grand-dada, grandfather |
| grannyknot | granny-knot |
| grapeflower | grape-flower, the grape hyacinth |
| grapeline | grape-line, a grapevine |
| grapenuts | Grape-Nuts, the cereal brand |
| graperoot | grape-root |
| grapestalk | grape-stalk |
| grapewort | grape-wort, the baneberry |
| graphoanalytical | grapho-analytical |
| grasschat | grass-chat, the whinchat |
| grasscut | grass-cut, Anglo-Indian grass-cutter |
| grassflat | grass-flat |
| grassflower | grass-flower |
| grasshouse | grass-house |
| grassmen | grass-men, graziers or grass tenants |
| grasswidow | grass-widow |
| grassworm | grass-worm |
| grateman | grate-man, a furnace tender |
| graveclod | grave-clod |
| gravegarth | grave-garth, a churchyard |
| gravelroot | gravel-root, the joe-pye weed |
| gravelstone | gravel-stone |
| gravelweed | gravel-weed |
| graveman | grave-man, a gravedigger |
| gravemaster | grave-master |
| graybearded | gray-bearded |
| graycoat | gray-coat |
| grayfish | gray-fish, the dogfish |
| grayfishes | gray-fishes |
| grayfly | gray-fly |
| grayhair | gray-hair |
| graymill | gray-mill, the gromwell |
| graypate | gray-pate, a gray-headed person |
| graywall | gray-wall |
| greasebush | grease-bush, the greasewood |
| greasehorn | grease-horn |
| greatheart | great-heart |
| greatmouthed | great-mouthed |
| greedygut | greedy-gut, a glutton |
| greencoat | green-coat |
| greenheaded | green-headed |
| greenhearted | green-hearted |
| greenleek | green-leek, an Australian parrot |
| greenthumbed | green-thumbed |
| greenwithe | green-withe, a Jamaican climbing plant |
| greycoat | grey-coat |
| greyfish | grey-fish |
| greyflies | grey-flies |
| greyfly | grey-fly |
| greypate | grey-pate, a gray-haired person |
| greyskin | grey-skin |
| grinderman | grinder-man |
| gripgrass | grip-grass, cleavers (Galium aparine) |
| grooverhead | groover-head, head of a grooving machine |
| groundbird | ground-bird |
| groundflower | ground-flower |
| groundneedle | ground-needle (shepherd's needle) |
| guardstone | guard-stone |
| guiltsick | guilt-sick |
| gulfside | gulf-side |
| gulllike | gull-like |
| gullyhole | gully-hole, a street drain opening |
| gumflower | gum-flower |
| gummaker | gum-maker |
| gummaking | gum-making |
| gunbright | gun-bright |
| gunreach | gun-reach, the range of a gun |
| gunsling | gun-sling |
| guntub | gun-tub, a gun emplacement |
| gutterman | gutter-man |
| gutterspout | gutter-spout |
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