Is there a word that you constantly forget how to spell correctly?

Definitely

I spell it using an a instead of using the second i. No idea why i do this every time

(I spell checked before posting btw)

Neice…er…neece You know, the female offspring of your sibling. Niece?

Occasional. I keep thinkinking that there should be an “i” after the first “a”.

@second_guessing I am with you on that word. I also have a tough time remembering how to spell responsibility.

My only major issue (that I can think of) is deciding if things should end with -able or -ible.

discaboobalated I always spell it discabobalated
At least it’s a word in the urban dictionary. j/k

Nah. Without wisshing to sound arrigannt, I pryde miself in my imakulet speling. Just sayin ;¬}

Words tha either end in “ance” or “ence” like correspondence and existence. I often forget which is which.

@janbb Oh, yeah. That, too. Add -ance/-ence to my list of spelling woes!

Mine is a really simple one but I always misspell receipt. I usually forget the second e. Not sure why.

Like @stranger_in_a_strange_land, occasional use to give me problems. I couldn’t remember if it contained two ‘cc’ or 2 ‘ss’.

@AmWiser It occasionally does to me, too.

Charachteristic. Dammit! I mean characteristic. It always trips me up.

@second_guessing A helpful tip: Just remember that the word finite is surrounded by a de and an ly.

I almost always spell “field” wrong the first time.

I had a teacher named Mr. Feild. Screwed me up for life.

And, many words with multiple sets of double letters, or words that sound like they should have double letters. Like seccede “secede”. I just double and triple check them in my brain before committing to a spelling.

I now have a very large dictionary by the computer since my spelling has gone to pot with the advent of age.

Necessary. So many c’s and s’s and c’s that sound like s’s.

Diar….diarh…...diarro…...... oh shit!!! I can never get that right ;¬}

Exactly the same as @second_guessing! The words with “i before e, except after c”.

Mine is cemetery. I want it to be cemetary. I’m sure there are others!

Recommend. Is it reccommend, reccomend…I get the amount of c’s and m’s all messed up.

Definaitely and Diaarehea too. Yep

Mine is definitely also. Also words like humor and honor, I prefer the British spelling, but words like color I prefer the American spelling. No logic there I guess, I don’t know why.

Necessarily Did I get it right?

@gypsywench : (I believe that it’s “discombobulated,” but given fast-and-easy way with language these days, I might be wrong.The urban dictionary’s motto is “anything goes.”)

I definately used to spell “definitely” incorrectly, but I’m much better about that now.

I love this question. I’m such a word nerd, sometimes.

Judgment—I always want to put an e between g and m.

@gasman You can! People will just think you’re a Brit. But there are worse things to be mistaken for.

I’m a visual learner, so spelling’s never been a problem for me. However, typing can really screw me up—I type very quickly so periodically the shift key is pressed down a second longer than I wanted it to be, and I sound inordinately emphatic about that first syllable.

I spell judgement this way. Is it British? I didn’t even know. There I go again. I thought that both spellings were simply acceptable. Like grey and gray. Learn something new every day.

Thought of another leiu. I am never sure if I am spelling it right. Did I spell it correctly?

@JLeslie You mean “lieu” as in, “in lieu of”?

@KTWBE Yes. I use it verbally often enough that I should get the spelling down in my head, so I can spell it correctly when writing. I guess it follows the i before e rule, I should try to remember that.

Restaurant, weird, truly, solely, piece, absolutely

And those are just the most common. I’m horrible with spelling. Spell check is awesome.

@papayalily I don’t have spell check like all you seem to have (except in Word and emails), i just use dictionary.com. :)

@NaturallyMe What browser are you using? All of mine have spell check built into them.

Ne.

@papayalily Firefox. I’ve heard others say that their Firefox has spell check, but….where?

@NaturallyMe I use Firefox and the spell check is just there. Maybe you’re using an older version?

Grey/Gray. I still don’t get it.

@NaturallyMe Tools>Options>Advanced>General>Browsing>Check my spelling as I type

If that’s checked and you still don’t have spell check, it may be missing a dictionary.
Check and verify that properly dictionary in the typed language is installed and added to Firefox. To check, simply right click on any user type-able field, and if you see an option Add dictionaries that means no dictionaries existed in Firefox, so spelling check won’t work.

Firefox Add Dictionaries

To install and add dictionary, simply click on Add dictionaries… menu item. Firefox will launch a new window or tab to load Firefox Add-ons: Dictionaries page, where you can install various languages dictionaries that work with the spell-checking feature in Firefox. Restart Firefox after installing, and the spell checker should now works properly.

Ensure that Spell check this field is selected in right click context menu on the typing box that you want to check spelling. Another possible resolution if problem still exist is wrong or invalid language of dictionary is been installed. For example, only Portuguese or Spanish dictionary add-on is installed while you’re typing in English. To add dictionary, simply right click on any text field again, then go to Languages and select Add dictionaries…. Choose to install the correct language of dictionary in the web page loaded, and restart Firefox after installing.

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/12/01/firefox-spell-checker-not-working-due-to-missing-dictionary/

I just thought of another one:

rediculous ridiculous

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities Thanks, but chances are it’s turned into a bit of a gimmick with me and would be disappointed if i actually spelt it correctly.

@second_guessing grey and gray are both acceptable spellings in American English, I thought judgement and judgment were both used in American English also.

Found this http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/judgement.html about judgement.

@JLeslie Wow. Bookmarked that site.

@MacBean & @JLeslie : Thanks for the clarification on judgment / judgement. I wasn’t aware that either was acceptable with differing American / British preferences. Reminds me of traveled / travelled, canceled, cancelled, etc. (the first of each pair American, the second British).

All the time. Guarantee and Bureau are just a couple I can think of right now.

I’ve always been good at spelling, and there’s only one word I can think of that I habitually get wrong, and that’s seperately. I mean separately.

Everything else is just typos.

@papayalily Aha, i did what you said and now i have spell check too! Yay! Tnx. :)

Tuesday

@downtide I mess that one up a lot too. I couldn’t tell you if it should be an e or an a without using spell check.

Consistent. I think it should be consistant.

Because becuase because because becasue…!

And I’m not editing it, just to show you all!

@JLeslie Those “an” and “en” words get me every time.

Ditto to ”-able” vs. ”-ible”, ”-ance” vs. ”-ence”, “diarrhea”, “lieu”, “ridiculous”, and those French-derived “au” or “ua” words “restaurant”, “guarantee” and {the less-popular} “guaranty” (think “sounds like ‘carrageenan’, spelled like ’guar gum’”) and “bureau” (although I concede that the spelling of “bureaucratic” is admirably appropriate). Oh, yeah—and “appropriate”. (I want to spell it like “apropos”.)

I have to stop and think about “necessary”, (if there were two “c“s, it would be pronounced “neckessary”,) but then I get it.

I, too, feel like “cemetery” should end ”-ary” (it’s not pronounced “cemetury”), but curiously the American spelling of “gray” annoys me every time I see it; “grey” looks right.

I consistently mistype “their” (I guess I really took that ”‘ie’ except after ‘c’” rule to heart), “onomatopoeia” (think ”Poe”: ”. . . rapping, . . . tapping . . .”), “sequoia” (which should be easy, because it contains all five regular vowel graphemes exactly once), “facetious” (which should be even easier because they’re in alphabetical order), and “ophthalmology”.

I used to always write “therefor” when I meant “therefore”. Once I got a paper back with an “e” written in after each occurrence of the word and a note in the margin explaining the difference. I’m eternally grateful to that professor—I majored in mathematics, and rarely does one write a proof without at least one “therefore”. (I did worry for a while about all the consistently misspelled assignments I suddenly realized I’d turned in over the previous semesters.)

I’m glad you asked this question @NaturallyMe; it prompted me to come up with some new mnemonics. (Did I mention “mnemonic”?)

@Dan337 I love your words. Seriously. That was a good list. How often does “sequoia” enter your writings that it has found a place in your Constantly Misspelled Words List? I wish I could mnemonics, but they rarely work for me (the only successful ones that comes to mind is Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain for the rainbow and the rhyme “Little Sally Went to Heaven” to remember the formula for sulfuric acid – which is H2SO4.)

Am I the only one that will never spell “onomatopoeia” incorrectly, thanks to a mid-90s Game Boy commercial?

Maybe, but we older ones will always be able to spell “encyclopedia” because of Jiminy Cricket.

Oh, and gauge. I always want to switch up the A and the U. Which I did on the first try here.

@Seek_Kolinahr I learned how to spell “onomatopoeia” (and “qualm”) during a spelling contest episode of Hey Arnold!

There’s learning how to spell something and remembering how to spell something. Just sayin’

@muppetish Oh! I remember that one too! The commercial I’m talking about had this really snotty sounding girl in a spelling bee. “Oh-en-oh. Em-ay-tee. Oh-pee-oh. Ee-ai-ay.” and then a giant Game Boy crushed her. It was classic.

True story of how I learned to spell “onomatopoeia”: I was in 8th grade and it was one of our spelling words. I could NOT remember how to spell it and I had NEVER gotten less than a perfect score on a spelling test. So I wrote the word on my hand. I was so appalled by the idea that I was prepared to cheat in order to get a 100 instead of a 95, though, that I spit-scrubbed it off before the test started. However, I had omfgtraumatized myself so much that the image of the letters being scribbled onto my hand were ~~burned into my mind~~. So I got it right on the test and I’ve never forgotten how to spell it since then.

I was such a ridiculous kid. XD

@MacBean But look what a great adult you became!

separately or seperately?

Yes. There are several, but the only one I remember off the top of my head, because I ALWAYS. .. ALWAYS forget it, is Mirical. .. Mir.. mirecal. .. Miracal. Miracel. .. Mirec-... damn you, squiggle-red-lines! I give up. ..Mericle. Merical. Mericl-.. I thought.. ;; Miracle. YES. * Dance * ... it did take me that many tries. >>

@Saun Haha, been there, done that with the word chauffeur just the other day…it took my quite a while to get the right spelling… :)

Nope.

I’m a fucking dictionary.

Most of them!
“Hooked on Phonics” worked for me. I spell phonetically. Which means often incorrectly, because it sounds different than it is spelled.

Judgment. I always want to put an e after g, as in management.
I still have trouble remembering which words end in -able versus -ible.
Otherwise I’ve always been a good speller.

I really hate not being able to spell, because without a dictionary or spell check I can be forced to use an inferior word because I cannot spell it correctly.

@gasman I agree, Judgment should have another “e”.

^^^Why not keep an old-fashioned Collegiate Dictionary to hand?

Webster’s Collegiate‘s+collegiate+dictionary+2012&sprefix=Webster’s+collegiate+dictionary+%2Caps%2C175&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Awebster’s+collegiate+dictionary+2012

Or simply use dictionary.com