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Both M1 and M2 don't allow hyphens or dashes in its store codes. There is backend validation against it. However, it is not clear why. Any idea?

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    Maybe the dev just did not know how to make the regex :) Truly, I do not know but I am curious as it is a request I often have.
    – Christophe Ferreboeuf
    Commented Nov 8, 2017 at 11:51

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The only explanation I can find is:

A code is an identifier and normally represents one word. Therefore it consist of characters of the word-character class. Also not starting with a number sounds like a named identifier. So your two-words use-case is not applicable on the code, as it represents one word. Therefore no non-word-characters are allowed.

So you've found you can use a single word within the path-component of the URI and you've found out that the store-code is not suitable for two words. An URL-rewrite and output filter can handle this.

Taken from Hakre's comment about Magento 1 but I suspect the same logic is added to Magento 2 -https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10353636/magento-dash-in-store-code

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