Do I use timeslot or time slot or time-slot? [closed]

According to dictionary.com, it should be two separate words "time slot".

This useful article on compound words offers the following advice:

Many of them are found in the dictionary and are not subject to our interpretation, our judgment, or our whim. Start with your dictionary before applying any other guidelines.

I would be inclined to follow that advice, and use the dictionary version: time slot.


It seems that time slot is currently most common, but that doesn’t prevent you from adhering to more (or less) traditional approaches.

Here is the google n-gram of the variants in use since 1940.

Google n-gram of word usage since 1940

And it is always worth browsing at more venerable sources such as The New Yorker’s inimitable Comma Queen, Mary Norris, or, indeed, Wiktionary.