yes but the spelling is not important as the sound, it's two words when spoken, with a distinct pause between the prefix and the word it modifies, like antifascist - you say it anti-fascist, and at some point it got so common people drop the hyphen in the text
Like watermelon is also not a word but a combination of "water" and "melon"?
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And "democracy" is also not a word because it's just adding the prefix "demo" to the word "cracy"?
The only compound words that are not words are the ones that are a mix of latin and greek, like "hexadecimal" or "nonagon".
