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 |
|---|---|
| woodfall | wood-fall, a felling of timber |
| woodfish | wood-fish |
| woodgraining | wood-graining, painting in imitation of grain |
| woodhorse | wood-horse, a sawhorse |
| woodhung | wood-hung, hung with woods |
| woodjobber | wood-jobber, a dealer in wood |
| woodlocked | wood-locked, secured with a woodlock |
| woodmaid | wood-maid, a wood nymph |
| woodpenny | wood-penny, a due paid for wood |
| woodranger | wood-ranger, a forest keeper |
| woodrime | wood-rime, hoarfrost on trees |
| woollyhead | woolly-head |
| woolpress | wool-press |
| woolsaw | wool-saw |
| woolsower | wool-sower, the gall of a cynipid wasp |
| woolstapling | wool-stapling, sorting wool by staple |
| woolstock | wool-stock, a heavy hammer for fulling |
| woolweed | wool-weed |
| woolwheel | wool-wheel, a spinning wheel for wool |
| wordcraftsman | word-craftsman |
| wordperfect | word-perfect |
| wordspinner | word-spinner |
| wordspite | word-spite, spite shown in words |
| workbank | work-bank, a working bench or face |
| worldman | world-man, a worldly man |
| worldway | world-way |
| wornout | worn-out |
| worryproof | worry-proof |
| worshipworth | worship-worth, worthy of honour |
| wortworm | wort-worm, a worm infesting plants |
| wowwows | wow-wows, the silvery gibbons |
| wrainbolt | wrain-bolt, shipwright's bolt for bending planks |
| wrainstaff | wrain-staff, lever used with a wrain-bolt |
| wrainstave | wrain-stave |
| wreathpiece | wreath-piece, the curved piece of a handrail |
| wreathwort | wreath-wort, a plant name |
| wrigglework | wriggle-work, zigzag engraved ornament |
| wringman | wring-man, a man who works a press |
| wringstaff | wring-staff, shipwright's lever |
| wringstaves | wring-staves |
| wristfall | wrist-fall, the drop of the wrist |
| writmaker | writ-maker, a drawer of writs |
| writmaking | writ-making |
| writproof | writ-proof, beyond the reach of a writ |
| wronghearted | wrong-hearted |
| wrongheartedly | wrong-heartedly |
| wrongheartedness | wrong-heartedness |
| yawnproof | yawn-proof |
| yawroot | yaw-root, Stillingia, used against yaws |
| yawshrub | yaw-shrub, Morinda, used against yaws |
| yearbird | year-bird |
| yellowbark | yellow-bark |
| yellowbellied | yellow-bellied |
| yellowcup | yellow-cup |
| yellowrump | yellow-rump, a warbler |
| younghearted | young-hearted |
| yuleblock | yule-block, the Yule log |
| zealproof | zeal-proof, proof against zeal |
| zimentwater | ziment-water, copper-bearing water of a mine |
| zoologicoarchaeologist | zoologico-archaeologist |
| zoologicobotanical | zoologico-botanical |
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