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 |
|---|---|
| wardword | ward-word, a watchword |
| wareman | ware-man, a dealer in wares |
| warmaking | war-making |
| warningproof | warning-proof |
| wartflower | wart-flower, a name for a spurge |
| wartproof | wart-proof |
| warworks | war-works |
| washin | wash-in, the aeronautical wing-twist term |
| washroad | wash-road |
| washwork | wash-work |
| waspnesting | wasp-nesting |
| wastelbread | wastel-bread, fine white bread |
| wasteword | waste-word, an idle word |
| watchbill | watch-bill, the list of a ship's watches |
| watchcry | watch-cry, a watchword |
| watchfree | watch-free, free from watching |
| watchmake | watch-make, to make watches |
| watchworks | watch-works, the works of a watch |
| waterbank | water-bank |
| waterbear | water-bear, the tardigrade |
| waterbelly | water-belly, urinary calculus in cattle |
| waterbloom | water-bloom, an algal bloom |
| waterbosh | water-bosh, a water-cooled blast furnace bosh |
| waterbound | water-bound, as in water-bound macadam |
| waterbrain | water-brain, a hydatid disease of sheep |
| watercart | water-cart |
| watercaster | water-caster, one who diagnosed by urine |
| waterchat | water-chat, a waterside chat (bird) |
| watercup | water-cup |
| watercycle | water-cycle |
| waterdoe | water-doe |
| waterheap | water-heap |
| wateringman | watering-man, one who waters streets |
| waterleave | water-leave |
| waterlocked | water-locked |
| waterpit | water-pit |
| waterrug | water-rug, a shaggy water dog |
| watershake | water-shake, a crack in timber |
| watershut | water-shut |
| waterstead | water-stead, the bed of a stream |
| waterstoup | water-stoup, a water pail or basin |
| waterwood | water-wood, a West Indian tree |
| wattleboy | wattle-boy |
| wattsecond | watt-second, a joule |
| waxchandler | wax-chandler, a maker of wax candles |
| waxchandlery | wax-chandlery |
| waxcomb | wax-comb, honeycomb |
| waxhearted | wax-hearted |
| wayberry | way-berry |
| waybird | way-bird |
| waygoer | way-goer, one who departs |
| waysliding | way-sliding, a going astray |
| weakmouthed | weak-mouthed |
| weaselsnout | weasel-snout, the yellow dead-nettle |
| weatherbreak | weather-break, a shelter from weather |
| weathergleam | weather-gleam, the clear sky at the horizon |
| weatherhead | weather-head, a patch of sky foretelling weather |
| weatherheaded | weather-headed, giddy or harebrained |
| weathersick | weather-sick |
| webfed | web-fed, printing from a roll |
| webmaker | web-maker |
| webmaking | web-making |
| webwheel | web-wheel, a wheel with a solid web |
| webworn | web-worn |
| wedbed | wed-bed, the marriage bed |
| weddeed | wed-deed, a deed of pledge |
| wedfee | wed-fee, a pledge or fee paid at marriage |
| weedingtime | weeding-time |
| weetbird | weet-bird, a bird named from its cry |
| weevilproof | weevil-proof |
| weighbar | weigh-bar, as in the weigh-bar shaft |
| weighin | weigh-in |
| weighshaft | weigh-shaft, the rocking shaft of an engine |
| weightchaser | weight-chaser, one who keeps down weight |
| weirdwoman | weird-woman, a witch or one of the Fates |
| weirdwomen | weird-women, plural of weird-woman |
| wellacquainted | well-acquainted |
| welladvised | well-advised |
| wellaffected | well-affected |
| wellchosen | well-chosen |
| wellconnected | well-connected |
| wellcontent | well-content |
| welldecked | well-decked, of a ship with a well deck |
| welldone | well-done |
| wellmen | well-men, workers at a well |
| wellnear | well-near, well-nigh, almost |
| wellread | well-read |
| wellring | well-ring, the curb of a well |
| wellseen | well-seen, versed or skilled |
| wellset | well-set |
| wellspoken | well-spoken |
| wellstead | well-stead, the site of a well |
| wellstrand | well-strand, the runnel from a spring |
| wereass | were-ass, a man transformed into an ass |
| werecalf | were-calf, a man transformed into a calf |
| wetherhog | wether-hog, a castrated male lamb of the first year |
| wetherteg | wether-teg, a young wether sheep |
| whaleroad | whale-road, the old kenning for the sea |
| wharfhead | wharf-head |
| wheateared | wheat-eared |
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