Is "hardwork" a valid word?

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I came across this word in an English test, where "hardwork" was marked as the 'correct' answer for a question. I know of the adjective hardworking, but I thought "hardwork" was always written as two words, like "hard work".
An online search for "hardwork" reveals some results, but most of them seem to use the two-word version ("hard work"). This page on Definitions.net is the only dictionary I found mentioning "hardwork" as a single word. Is that a valid alternate spelling, and if so, where/when has it been used in the past?

AakashM · Accepted Answer

The OED has no entry for single-word 'hardwork'.

Your example on definitions.net was user-submitted, and in fact the provided citation doesn't use single-word 'hardwork'. Insofar as anything is "not a word", I'd say 'hardwork' counts.

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