By the way ,I use rewrite, one word, no hyphen for both the noun (" a rewrite") and the verb ("I will rewrite"). MS Word and Google docs accept both no hyphen and also with a hyphen. Google search transforms a search for re-write (with hyphen) to rewrite without a hyphen. Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionaries present the word without a hyphen, as well.
So it seems that either is acceptable, but the preferred term is rewrite with no hyphen, and it seems like a pretty strong preference, going all the way back to 1587. Get it?
