word-splitting

[SergioAnigo]

making too fine distinctions of little importance

[Marquetta]

Word-splitting refers to the process of separating a continuous sequence of text or a compound word into individual and meaningful words. This is often used in programming or data analysis to identify important keywords, search terms, or to conduct text analysis. Word-splitting can also refer to a phenomenon in linguistics where a phrase or word is mistakenly divided due to incorrect language usage or understanding.