What is the difference between these two words?

Question

Which one is correct:

short answer question

or

short-answer question

If both of them are correct how do they differ from each other?

There's no significant preference one way or the other for hyphenating high-strength concrete, for example. Use whichever you like best - it's more a matter of style than "grammatical rules", and obviously in both that and OP's cited context there's no possibility of different meanings. — FumbleFingers, Jun 19 '17 at 13:44
Possible duplicate of When should compound words be written as one word, with hyphens, or with spaces? — Laurel, Jun 19 '17 at 15:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '17 at 13:35

Short-answer question would be more correct in any plausible situation.

Having the dash just directly correlates the fact that what you're looking for is a "short answer" to your question, without having to write it out as I have.

On a technical level, neither are incorrect but readability is greater in the latter option.

What is the difference between these two words?

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