Error Words
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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 |
|---|---|
| slideman | slide-man |
| slimeman | slime-man, a workman handling slimes |
| slimemen | slime-men |
| slimepit | slime-pit, a bitumen pit |
| slingman | sling-man, one who uses a sling |
| slinkweed | slink-weed, a plant that makes cattle abort |
| slipback | slip-back, a relapse |
| slipband | slip-band, a slip line in a strained crystal |
| slipbodies | slip-bodies |
| slipbody | slip-body, a wagon body that slips off |
| slipcoach | slip-coach, a carriage slipped from a moving train |
| slipcote | slip-cote, a soft cream cheese |
| slipgibbet | slip-gibbet, a gallows-bird |
| sliphorn | slip-horn, a trombone |
| sliphouse | slip-house, where pottery slip is mixed |
| slipman | slip-man, a workman at a slipway |
| slipnoose | slip-noose |
| slipperflower | slipper-flower, the calceolaria |
| slipperyback | slippery-back |
| slipperyroot | slippery-root, comfrey |
| slipproof | slip-proof |
| slipslap | slip-slap |
| slipstep | slip-step, a sliding step |
| slipstone | slip-stone, a shaped whetstone |
| sliptopped | slip-topped |
| slitwing | slit-wing |
| slitwork | slit-work, iron slit into rods |
| sliverproof | sliver-proof |
| slockingstone | slocking-stone, rich ore shown to lure investors |
| sloeberries | sloe-berries |
| sloeberry | sloe-berry |
| sloetree | sloe-tree, the blackthorn |
| slogwood | slog-wood |
| slopmaker | slop-maker, a maker of cheap ready-made clothes |
| slopmaking | slop-making |
| slopstone | slop-stone, a stone kitchen sink |
| slotman | slot-man, the copy-desk chief |
| slovenwood | sloven-wood, southernwood |
| slowbellied | slow-bellied, lazy |
| slowbellies | slow-bellies |
| slowbelly | slow-belly, a lazy glutton |
| slowgoing | slow-going |
| slowheaded | slow-headed, dull-witted |
| slowhearted | slow-hearted |
| slowheartedness | slow-heartedness |
| slowmouthed | slow-mouthed |
| slowup | slow-up, a slackening of pace |
| slowwittedly | slow-wittedly |
| slugwood | slug-wood |
| slumberproof | slumber-proof |
| slumpproof | slump-proof |
| slumproof | slum-proof |
| slumpwork | slump-work |
| slungbodies | slung-bodies |
| slungbody | slung-body, a cart with a slung body |
| slurbow | slur-bow, a crossbow for shooting stones |
| slushpit | slush-pit, a drilling mud pit |
| smallboy | small-boy, a servant boy |
| smallcoal | small-coal, coal in small pieces |
| smallhearted | small-hearted |
| smallmouthed | small-mouthed |
| smelterman | smelter-man |
| smeltman | smelt-man |
| smilemaker | smile-maker |
| smilemaking | smile-making |
| smithydander | smithy-dander, smithy cinders |
| smockface | smock-face, a pale smooth face |
| smokefarthings | smoke-farthings, a customary church due |
| smokeshaft | smoke-shaft, a chimney flue |
| smokestone | smoke-stone, smoky quartz |
| smokyseeming | smoky-seeming |
| smoothback | smooth-back |
| smoothboots | smooth-boots, a flatterer |
| smoothcoat | smooth-coat |
| smoothmouthed | smooth-mouthed |
| smoothpate | smooth-pate, a close-cropped head |
| snackman | snack-man |
| snafflebit | snaffle-bit |
| snagbush | snag-bush |
| snaileater | snail-eater, a snail-eating snake |
| snakeblennies | snake-blennies |
| snakeblenny | snake-blenny, an eel-like northern fish |
| snakeflower | snake-flower, the viper's bugloss |
| snakeholing | snake-holing, blasting from under a boulder |
| snakeleaf | snake-leaf |
| snakepiece | snake-piece |
| snakepipe | snake-pipe, the horsetail |
| snakeworm | snake-worm |
| snakewort | snake-wort, snakeroot |
| snapbag | snap-bag, a miner's food bag |
| snapberry | snap-berry |
| snapholder | snap-holder, a rivet-snap holder |
| snapout | snap-out, a multipart business form |
| snapperback | snapper-back, the center in football |
| snapshare | snap-share |
| snapshoot | snap-shoot, to take snapshots |
| snapwort | snap-wort, the bladder campion |
| sneckdrawing | sneck-drawing, crafty wheedling |
| sneckdrawn | sneck-drawn, crafty and mean |
| snickdraw | snick-draw, a crafty trick |
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