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 |
|---|---|
| roughstring | rough-string, the rough carriage of a stair |
| roughstuff | rough-stuff, coarse filling or primer |
| roughtailed | rough-tailed |
| roughwrought | rough-wrought |
| roundheadedness | round-headedness |
| roundline | round-line, a small nautical line |
| roundmouthed | round-mouthed |
| roundnose | round-nose, of pliers or a chisel |
| roundnosed | round-nosed |
| roundridge | round-ridge, to plough into rounded ridges |
| roundseam | round-seam |
| roundtail | round-tail, a round-tailed fish |
| roupingwife | rouping-wife, Scots woman auctioneer |
| rowdyproof | rowdy-proof |
| rowelhead | rowel-head, the head of a spur rowel |
| royalmast | royal-mast, the mast above the topgallant |
| rubbernose | rubber-nose |
| rubberstone | rubber-stone, elastic sandstone |
| rubbingstone | rubbing-stone |
| rubrail | rub-rail, the rubbing strake of a boat |
| ruewort | rue-wort, a plant of the rue family |
| ruggown | rug-gown, a gown of coarse rug cloth |
| ruinproof | ruin-proof |
| rumorproof | rumor-proof |
| rumpuncheon | rum-puncheon, a large cask of rum |
| rumtytoo | rum-ty-too, humdrum and conventional |
| runboard | run-board, a running board |
| runby | run-by |
| runchweed | runch-weed, wild mustard or charlock |
| runefolk | rune-folk |
| runeword | rune-word |
| runfish | run-fish, a fish that has run to spawn |
| runkeeper | run-keeper, one who keeps a stock run |
| rushbush | rush-bush |
| rushland | rush-land, ground overgrown with rushes |
| rusticwork | rustic-work, rusticated masonry |
| sabbathbreaker | Sabbath-breaker |
| sabbathbreaking | Sabbath-breaking |
| sabbathkeeper | Sabbath-keeper |
| sabbathkeeping | Sabbath-keeping |
| saberproof | saber-proof |
| sackbag | sack-bag |
| saddleleaf | saddle-leaf, the tulip tree |
| saddlestead | saddle-stead, the seat of the saddle on a horse |
| sadheartedness | sad-heartedness |
| saffrontree | saffron-tree |
| sagebush | sage-bush, the sagebrush |
| sageleaf | sage-leaf |
| sagerose | sage-rose, a plant of the genus Turnera |
| sailorfish | sailor-fish, the sailfish |
| saleware | sale-ware, goods made for sale |
| salleeman | Sallee-man, a Barbary corsair vessel |
| salleemen | Sallee-men, plural of Sallee-man |
| sallybloom | sally-bloom, willow blossom |
| sallyman | sally-man, the Velella jellyfish |
| sallymen | sally-men, plural of sally-man |
| sallywood | sally-wood, willow wood |
| saloonkeep | saloon-keep, a saloonkeeper |
| saltcatch | salt-catch, a pan or trough for salt |
| saltfat | salt-fat, a salt vat (fat, a vat) |
| saltsprinkler | salt-sprinkler |
| saltwife | salt-wife, a woman who sells salt |
| salvageproof | salvage-proof |
| samgarnebo | Samgar-nebo, a Babylonian prince in Jeremiah |
| sandbug | sand-bug, the mole crab |
| sandclub | sand-club |
| sandflower | sand-flower |
| sandgoby | sand-goby, a small shore fish |
| sandheat | sand-heat, heat from a sand bath |
| sandkey | sand-key, a low sandy islet |
| sandmite | sand-mite |
| sandnatter | sand-natter, a sand adder |
| sandnecker | sand-necker, a flatfish |
| sandroller | sand-roller, a small darter-like fish |
| sandstay | sand-stay, a plant that binds sand |
| sandust | sand-dust; the doubled d collapsed with the hyphen |
| sandweed | sand-weed, a plant of sandy ground |
| sandweld | sand-weld, welding with sand as flux |
| sandwood | sand-wood |
| sanemindedness | sane-mindedness |
| sangreeroot | sangree-root, the Virginia snakeroot |
| sapbush | sap-bush, a sugar-maple grove |
| sapwort | sap-wort, a plant name |
| sarcasmproof | sarcasm-proof |
| sassagum | sassa-gum, an Abyssinian gum resin |
| sassybark | sassy-bark, the West African ordeal bark |
| satinbush | satin-bush, an Australian shrub |
| satinfin | satin-fin, the satinfin shiner |
| satireproof | satire-proof |
| saucerleaf | saucer-leaf, a plant with saucer-shaped leaves |
| sawneb | saw-neb, the merganser |
| sawsetter | saw-setter, a tool for setting saw teeth |
| sawsharper | saw-sharper, one who sharpens saws |
| sawway | saw-way, the kerf cut by a saw |
| sawworker | saw-worker |
| saxcornet | sax-cornet, a brass instrument of the Sax family |
| saynay | say-nay, a refusal or denial |
| scaldberry | scald-berry, the blackberry |
| scalebark | scale-bark, the shagbark hickory |
| scalesmith | scale-smith, a maker of weighing scales |
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