Guest akasha24 Posted October 7, 2013 Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 Which English words do you misspell the most? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccanono Posted October 7, 2013 Report Share Posted October 7, 2013 Haha. Weird.Because I always remember the "i before e except after letter c".So the word weird wouldn't qualify as "before c" since the letter before "ie or ei" is W.It really is weird to spell weird. Haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justusforus Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 I have trouble with the "a"s and "e"s in words like relevant, defendant, etc. I always seem to want to put another a at the end instead of e. I also have some trouble at times with words like commission and necessary when consonants repeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayitwell Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 I misspell more words nowadays than I did when I was in school, that is for sure. It is probably because I don't read as much as I used to. When you don't surround yourself with words, you forget their spellings. I have been misspelling "Onomatopoeia", "calendar" (I put it as -er at the end for some reason) and "tomorrow" as I want to double up on the m for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mccanono Posted October 8, 2013 Report Share Posted October 8, 2013 @sayitwellwhenever you write tomorrow, always think of it as to-morrow I've had this issue before but since I thought of it as to-morrow, no more issues.And even the spelling of my country, ugh! Philippines. I would often spell it as Philipines. haha XD I'm not that patriotic lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calebmelvern Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Broccoli. Did I get that right?Whenever I encounter this word, I always have trouble spelling it out. I sometimes get confused about which letters to double up as in occasion, embarrass, and accommodate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akasha24 Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 Broccoli. Did I get that right?Whenever I encounter this word, I always have trouble spelling it out. I sometimes get confused about which letters to double up as in occasion, embarrass, and accommodate.Yes, you got that right :grin: The other words you mentioned..I always think about how many "r"-s or "c"-s I have to write. The good thing is that on forums like this, if you misspell something, it will be underlined in red, so then you know that you wrote a specific word incorrectly, but there are times when a word I type is underlined and I still can't figure out the correct spelling by myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraM Posted October 9, 2013 Report Share Posted October 9, 2013 I can never spell "plagiarism" or "plagiarize" or "plagiarist" or any other of the derivatives without looking them up first. In fact, I looked it up just now to make sure I had spelled it correctly! I have trouble with other words, but that one is a sure bet for misspelling if I don't check it first. It's such a strange sequence of vowels and consonants to me. A few others that give me trouble sometimes are "changeable," "allegiance," and "gauge." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beverly Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Yes, you got that right :grin: The other words you mentioned..I always think about how many "r"-s or "c"-s I have to write. The good thing is that on forums like this, if you misspell something, it will be underlined in red, so then you know that you wrote a specific word incorrectly, but there are times when a word I type is underlined and I still can't figure out the correct spelling by myself HA! that's the same as mine. Broccoli seem to be one that I always just use one 'c'. I always need spell check to correct it for me. Google is another one that I need spell check. I either type it with one 'o' and double 'g' or one 'o' with one 'g' then I'd be like 'hmm this doesn't look right'. Many times I'd type 'kitchen' instead of 'chicken' which I don't know why..but it happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest isabbbela Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I find my biggest problems are with words "z" or "s". Like "analise" or "analize". I never know what is right, or if both are right depending on where you are. I'll also have some doubts when it's a word which already ends with "Y. Like "mystery"... I'll always write "mistery" and then the spell check tells me I'm wrong... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest akasha24 Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I would also like to add two more words that came to my mind yesterday while writing a song. One is "believe" and the other one is "receive". I never know if the e or the i comes first I misspell them most of the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JessiFox Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 I can't think of too many that still give me trouble...I used to have a hard time with calendar, lavender, zealous, physicist and license. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preya_M Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 I constantly have problems with "ie" and "ei" words, it's so confusing. Just recently I spelled the word "thief" wrong, I'm always spelling it like "theif." The word "perceive" is another that I usually get wrong. I can’t think of any other words at this time but I’m sure that there are a few more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thekernel Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 "Necessary", "Unnecessary", and "Embarrassing" are words I mess up all the time. The double consonants are hard to remember for each individual word. I'll always end up with a missing n, a missing r, or an extra c. I hate when I get that red underline every time I try to type those words, yet somehow I don't remember the differences between them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiralArchitect Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 'Apparently'. Its a simple enough word but I just can't seem to get it right and have to write it twice every time I use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jodiann12 Posted October 11, 2013 Report Share Posted October 11, 2013 Broccoli. Did I get that right?Whenever I encounter this word, I always have trouble spelling it out. I sometimes get confused about which letters to double up as in occasion, embarrass, and accommodate.This happens to me, too. I often have trouble remembering which letters I need to double up. The words I usually have a problem with are tomorrow, occurrence, occasion, embarrass and accommodate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandandesign Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 There are a few English words I have trouble spelling such as Convenience and Syllabus. I often spell Convenience in a wrong way, which I would forget the "i". Syllabus, for instance, I have trouble spelling it because I usually mistakenly use "m" instead of "y". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baburra Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 I always forget how to spell embarrassed, and I have to be reminded by the red underline from spell check each time. Thank heavens for spell check, really, as it's made me realize how many words I've had the wrong idea of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraM Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 I can't think of too many that still give me trouble...I used to have a hard time with calendar, lavender, zealous, physicist and license. I sometimes have trouble with calendar and license. With "calendar" I sometimes want to reverse the last two vowels. Just a couple of hours ago I was trying to spell "buoyant" and it took me a couple of tries before my spell check let me know I got it correct. It's one of those words with a tricky arrangement of vowels. This is a great topic as we're finding common ground in spelling errors as well as encouragement to get them spelled correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MyDigitalpoint Posted October 19, 2013 Report Share Posted October 19, 2013 I used to have problems with together during my teen years changing the "h" placement at my sole discretion.Actually I'm conscious that conciseness-related words are the ones I have more trouble spelling them correctly.In fact to post the above paragraph I got the spell checker correcting me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dame6089 Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 Words with double letter always catch me up. Tomorrow is probably the best example. I have spelt that word in about as many as you could possibly imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GetFresh Posted October 20, 2013 Report Share Posted October 20, 2013 I'm notorious for misspelling "tomorrow". I don't know why, but I always put two "m"s. I think I grew up doing it that way in years and no teacher ever caught it. I'll see the spell check error when typing, but when i'm hand writing i'll miss it for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zambothegreat Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 I can't think of any specifically, but I tend to have some trouble with the spelling of words that might have a pair of double letters. Something like "commission", or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mareebaybay Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 I have a hard time spelling words with tons of double letters. I am great at sounding a word out though, which makes things much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pandandesign Posted November 4, 2013 Report Share Posted November 4, 2013 Words with double letter always catch me up. Tomorrow is probably the best example. I have spelt that word in about as many as you could possibly imagine.Oh, I agree! It happens to me sometimes. I don't know why, but one thing I know for sure is that I always thought double letters don't come together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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