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Are there words that you routinely misspell?

Asked by bookish1 (13159points) June 24th, 2013

Here are some of mine, in no particular order:

-Parsley
-Diarrhea
-Fluorescent
-Homogeneous

Which words do you almost always misspell? Does it vary depending on whether you’re typing or handwriting?

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Berserker's avatar

Diarrhea is one I always misspell, too. As well as the word definitely. I hate that fucking word. I had problems with the word necessary for a long time, but I have managed to tame that bad boy.

glacial's avatar

Mispell. I mean miss-spell. I mean misspell.

Now try diarrhoea with an ‘o’.

zenvelo's avatar

Accommodate, mostly because I resist having two double letters so close to each other. Instinctively I spell it with one em, but I almost always recall and go back to correct it.

Katniss's avatar

Definitely
Convenience
Diarrhea
Sincerely

I really can’t spell anything anymore, I’m so used to autocorrect on my phone.

DominicX's avatar

I used to have a real problem with “occurrence” (with the double letters throwing me off).

Pachy's avatar

I type too fast and sloppily or dyslexia is setting in because way too often I discover I’ve transposed letters in even simple words. I hate that. Raelly haet taht.

janbb's avatar

I had a problem with “separate” for most of my life but now I have come to like my separation.

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

I have no idea why, but I misspell the word exercise often. I see it with another “c” after the “x”.

janbb's avatar

@Hawaii_Jake That’s one I have to think about too.

ucme's avatar

Knot reely, eye pryd miselph onn mi imakulit spelin, thow eye doo hav a byt ov trubble wiv supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :)

rebbel's avatar

Yec, the word no.

picante's avatar

Supplement (I want to make it suppliment)

I doubt that I would be able to spell diarrhea without some assistance

I get confused by the “I before E except after C” exceptions, of which there are many weird examples ;-)

flutherother's avatar

I try to spell occasion with two s’s but the spell checker doesn’t like it.

El_Cadejo's avatar

definitely
convenience
necessary

@Katniss I have a similar problem with my phone. I don’t have a fancy smart phone or anything but I have T9 which I use. Half the time it really screws with me because some common words won’t be in the phones dictionary(no way to add either) so I’m convinced that I must be spelling the damn word wrong :P

livelaughlove21's avatar

Judgment. I always stick an e between the g and m.

augustlan's avatar

Conscious/consciousness Whoa, I actually spelled them right this time!
Harassment (I always want there to be two “r“s in there).
I used to have a problem with conscience, separate, definite and tomorrow, but I’ve finally gotten those firmly in hand.

Katniss's avatar

@uberbatman Does your T9 change that words that you’re trying to spell, even when you know they’re spelled right?? lol
That frustrates the hell out of me!!

oneword's avatar

definately

Sunny2's avatar

@zenvelo I remember accommodate because it is so roomy it can hold both a double c and a double m.
@livelaughlove21 Judgement was spelled with an e when I was growing up. Spellcheck corrects it if you use an e now. Either is correct until my generation moves on, then Spellcheck wins.
@augustlan An ass participates in harassment.
I have words I have to check, but I can’t remember what they are.

El_Cadejo's avatar

@Katniss Worse. It changes words I know I’m spelling correctly into things that aren’t even fucking close to resembling words >_<

RealEyesRealizeRealLies's avatar

I never know when to write “oneself, or one’s self”.

livelaughlove21's avatar

@Sunny2 Unfortunately, “judgement” is not acceptable on court documents.

Katniss's avatar

@uberbatman Sometimes my phone comes up with the dumbest shit. At times it’s so funny I send it as is. You know, just to confuse the hell out if the recipient.
I’m an asshole like that. :0)

Bellatrix's avatar

Diarrhoea gives me the shits. I never get that one right.

There are many but I can’t think of any now. I remembered one – vitamins. I’ve had to get @auggie to correct that one here.

I have days when my spelling is worse than others. Where I second guess everything I write and then still get things wrong.

With judgement/judgment it depends on the usage. In a legal setting it has to be judgment. In general usage, judgement is the British spelling. I would use judgement since I’m British and in Australia. Interesting Wikipedia article.

YARNLADY's avatar

Yes, there are several, but I only notice them after the fact, so I can’t really list them here.

Brian1946's avatar

My spelling is stuck in the Dork Ages when I try to spell midevil medieval. ;-|

Bellatrix's avatar

I just struggled with excruciatingly.

augustlan's avatar

Just remembered I was having a hard time with “knowledgeable” the other day. I kept wanting to remove the second “e”.

GoldieAV16's avatar

Diarrhea and hemorrhoids, until I realized they both have two r’s (as in runs) followed by one h – as in the hole that will be sore from either.

Gross, I know, but for a good cause.

janbb's avatar

Words that end with “ance”, or should it be “ence?”, such as correspondence.

Adagio's avatar

For years and years I spelt thank you as one word, thankyou, it was only when I started using voice-activated software that I realised, I still think thankyou looks much better as one word and would continue to spell like that to this day if it didn’t mean I had to adjust it.

@livelaughlove the word judgement looks much better spelt with an ‘e’, I have always spelt it that way and voice activation doesn’t argue either.

deni's avatar

BROCCOLI !!!

Inspired_2write's avatar

For some reason ( slow computer, fast keying) the words I and that get trasposed.
In the case of I usually I typed too fast for the caps key can capture it.

mattbrowne's avatar

I used to misspell Gandhi.

Ghandi is a common misspelling present in more than 63 million documents searched by Google.

Bellatrix's avatar

Fahrenheit and Celsius. Always want to write celcius and farenheit. Just did it in fact but checked and made the 10 minute edit window.

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