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 |
|---|---|
| pairmasts | pair-masts |
| palebelly | pale-belly |
| palebreast | pale-breast |
| palebuck | pale-buck, a small antelope |
| palegold | pale-gold |
| palehearted | pale-hearted |
| paleman | pale-man, maker or setter of pales |
| palmchrist | palm-Christ, the castor-oil plant |
| panheaded | pan-headed, of a rivet or screw |
| panside | pan-side, the side of a pan |
| pansideman | pan-sideman, workman at the salt pans |
| pantherwood | panther-wood |
| papmeat | pap-meat, soft food for infants |
| papooseroot | papoose-root, blue cohosh |
| paraaminobenzoic | para-aminobenzoic (acid) |
| pargeboard | parge-board, board for spreading plaster |
| parishwide | parish-wide |
| parodyproof | parody-proof |
| parrotbeak | parrot-beak |
| parsleywort | parsley-wort, a plant |
| partimembered | parti-membered, heraldry |
| partridgewood | partridge-wood, a tropical hardwood |
| paschflower | pasch-flower, the pasqueflower |
| passionwort | passion-wort |
| passpenny | pass-penny |
| patchhead | patch-head |
| patchleaf | patch-leaf, the patchouli plant |
| patchstand | patch-stand, stand for a patch-box |
| pathfarer | path-farer, a wayfarer |
| pathologicopsychological | pathologico-psychological |
| patronessship | patroness-ship |
| peabird | pea-bird, the wryneck |
| peabush | pea-bush |
| peacemake | peace-make, to make peace |
| peaceman | peace-man, an advocate of peace |
| peachberry | peach-berry |
| peachbloom | peach-bloom, a peach-colored glaze |
| peachwort | peach-wort, lady's thumb |
| peakgoose | peak-goose, a simpleton |
| pearlberry | pearl-berry |
| pearlbird | pearl-bird |
| pearleye | pearl-eye, a deep-sea fish |
| pearleyed | pearl-eyed |
| pearleyes | pearl-eyes |
| pearlfruit | pearl-fruit |
| pearloyster | pearl-oyster |
| pearlsides | pearl-sides, a small deep-sea fish |
| pearlspar | pearl-spar, dolomite |
| pearlweed | pearl-weed, pearlwort |
| peastake | pea-stake, a stick for pea vines |
| peastaking | pea-staking |
| peastick | pea-stick |
| peasticking | pea-sticking |
| peathouse | peat-house |
| peatweed | peat-weed |
| peatwood | peat-wood |
| peavine | pea-vine |
| pebblehearted | pebble-hearted |
| peelcrow | peel-crow |
| peelman | peel-man |
| peepeye | peep-eye, the game of peekaboo |
| peglegged | peg-legged |
| pegman | peg-man |
| pegmen | peg-men |
| pegwood | peg-wood, dogwood used for pegs |
| pellmells | pell-mells |
| penchute | pen-chute, a chute into a stock pen |
| pencilwood | pencil-wood |
| penclerk | pen-clerk |
| pengun | pen-gun, a popgun made of a quill |
| penhead | pen-head |
| penmaster | pen-master |
| pennybird | penny-bird |
| pennyearth | penny-earth |
| pennyflower | penny-flower (honesty, Lunaria) |
| pennyhole | penny-hole (a pitching game) |
| pennyleaf | penny-leaf (navelwort) |
| pennyrot | penny-rot (marsh pennywort) |
| penscript | pen-script, a handwritten document |
| penstick | pen-stick, a penholder |
| penworker | pen-worker, a writer |
| penwright | pen-wright, a writer |
| pepperroot | pepper-root (toothwort, Dentaria) |
| periwigpated | periwig-pated |
| perjurymonger | perjury-monger |
| perjurymongering | perjury-mongering |
| pestilenceweed | pestilence-weed, the butterbur |
| pestilencewort | pestilence-wort, the butterbur |
| peternet | peter-net, a kind of fishing net |
| peterwort | peter-wort, St. Peter's-wort |
| petitionproof | petition-proof |
| pettygod | petty-god, a minor deity |
| phantomland | phantom-land |
| phiallike | phial-like |
| philic | -philic, combining form "loving" |
| philosophicojuristic | philosophico-juristic |
| philterproof | philter-proof |
| pholido | pholido-, combining form "scale" |
| phoneticogrammatical | phonetico-grammatical |
| phoneticohieroglyphic | phonetico-hieroglyphic |
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