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Rule "A week long (week-long) vacation"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: A week long (week-long) vacation
Message: It appears that a hyphen is missing in the adjective <suggestion>\3-\4</suggestion>.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/hyphen/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • He's going on a week long vacation.
    Correction suggestion: week-long
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • It is about a year old now.
ID: WEEK_LONG_HYPHEN [1]
Version: 6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-25 22:33:08 +0100)