Quickie spell check please??

[eyeshade]

Underrepresented - with hyphen or without ? One says yes here, one says no?? Thanks ES

[NoMercy]

I would say hyphenated

[craft1948]

without

[albaqwerty]

would passionately suggest WITH
silly question time. where are you putting the hyphen.... sorry silly hat on today

[ummmm]

How about 2 words?

[daffy654]

I would also say hyphenated as 'under' and 'represented' are two seperate words.

[eyeshade]

Thanks NM, does look better with doesn't it. Ta.

[rinkins]

Sorry i saw the word quickie and got the wrong idea ;-)

[NoMercy]

I've just checked for you and it appears that it is all one word (not hypenated). I had doubts after I submitted my answer.

[ummmm]

NoMercy..!!

4 other people answered..!!!!!

[craft1948]

google it...........all answers I saw show without a hyphen and as one word...................

[ummmm]

NM...that was aimed at eyeshade.

It just doesn't look right though.

[albaqwerty]

same result as craft, I think it just looks better with a hyphen.

[Ankou]

one word no hyphen

regards
good authority

[scotman]

Chambers 10th has it hyphenated

[NoMercy]

It is probably permissable to spell it either way. You can spell underrated as under-rated so why not the same rule for underrepresented....

[Ankou]

the trend in english is for frequently used word combinations to "grow together" from two words to one, sometimes passing through a hyphenated stage.

however, words prefixed by non, un, in, dis, co, anti, hyper, pre, re, post, out, bi, counter, de, semi, mis, mega, micro, inter, over, and under (among others) should not really be hyphenated, unless the second word begins with a capital such as un-english.

[bookbinder]

My dictionary (Bloomsbury Concise English Dictionary 2nd edition 2005) gives "underrepresent" and "underrepresentation" without hyphens.