This is an interesting one. In general, hyphenated prefixes are frowned upon (nonprofit but non-native). In this case, the hyphen is used to distinguish between two words that are pronounced differently but otherwise spelled the same.
Recreate is the verb form of recreation. It isn’t used very much, so nobody really thinks about it.
Re-create is to create again. This is a much handier word than recreate.
Trick to Remember
Without a hyphen, the word is pronounced REC-ree-ate (as in recreation). With a hyphen, the re is separated from the c and so is pronounced ree-cree-ATE.
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