What words do you instinctively misspell?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Two come off the top of my head:

Congratulations = I always want to spell it Congradulations

Restaurant = I always want to spell it Restaraunt

[jobycom]

1. Lately I can't spell anonymous or synonymous, or rhythm. They still look wrong.

[Iggo]

21. Mispronounce it to spell it correctly.

ano-NYM-ous. syno-NYM-ous. I've been pruposely mispronouncing words in my head to spell them correctly ever since early grade school. Totally works.

Can't help ya with "rhythm", though. I get that one wrong, too.

[jobycom]

26. That would help if I remembered how to spell it enough to mispronounce it.

I will be flying along, typing 60 wpm, and screech to halt, muttering "anoNYMous, anoNAMous, anoNIMous..."

I won a county spelling bee in 6th grade! Then again, that was in Mississippi (which is easy to spell but hard to type without counting syllables). Nothing over three letters. You know, God, gun, USA, dog, cat... Okay not really.

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. I get tripped up on beua...er...buea...er beautiful

just about every time.

[Shell Beau]

35. So are you saying you have a hard time with my name?

:P

[ScreamingMeemie]

40. That is why I shall just call you Shell.

:)

[undeterred]

3. I misspelled 'misspell' in the 8th grade spelling bee

in front of the whole school. I stopped in the middle of the word to think about whether there was one s or two... and I ended up giving it three.

missspell :banghead:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. So did my mom!

She was in the state spelling bee and could have gone to nationals if not for mispell....I mean, misspell.

[PeaceNikki]

4. Seperate.

Always.

[DS1]

6. What teh hell are you talking about, intentional?

:7

[Pool Hall Ace]

7. pronunciation becomes pronounciation

That's the only one I can think of.

[1gobluedem]

9. I do that too

And I have a terrible time with tetanus; I want to spell it tetnaus. Fortunately, I don't have to write it much.

[DS1]

8. and btw

"Congradulations"

That's my dumbass detector's favorite word

[PeaceNikki]

10. "Lurve" and "methinks" ping my dumbass meter.

[DS1]

16. that and extra "me"s

I got me some boots

Suggest me a book to read

[LynzM]

11. Past tense verbs ending in "L"

"travelling" and the like... I always want to put two Ls in there. I know it's wrong. I still want to do it. :banghead:

[DS1]

17. Canceled

always looks wrong

[LynzM]

28. I agree.

x(

[hyphenate]

44. Actually not wrong

They're listed as variants on the word.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/travelling

[leeroysphitz]

12. All of them.

Thank god for Firefox's built in spell check.

[Guava Jelly]

13. All of them

The older I get the more my grammar suffers

[leeroysphitz]

14. Neener neener neener, got mine out first!

:)

[Guava Jelly]

15. Thats cuz you spelt bettah

:P

[av8rdave]

18. "moran," "hugh" and "series"

[Oeditpus Rex]

19. 'judgment,' 'acknowledgment' and the like

I wanna put the 'e' in there because without it, the 'g' looks hard, as in "Gah!" and that'd be a very awkward pronunciation.

Webster says "judgement" et al are alternative spellings, but a lotta people can't accept those. :shrug:

[NJmaverick]

36. Didn't see this before I posted pretty much the same thing

although not as thorough or thoughtful.

[madinmaryland]

20. teh.

[SallyMander]

22. Relevant

I always want to write "relevent" and spell-check always yells at me. :D

[auburngrad82]

23. Only Hugh Loosers misspell words. Series! nt

[Zavulon]

24. If consistent typos count, my worst one is "system." I almost always type "syatem."

The first thing I do when being assigned to a new workstation or when buying a new computer is to add that typo to my spell check.

[Iggo]

27. Then mine would be...

Thnak you...

[TrogL]

25. among - it rhymes with "young" so why not "amoung"

[DarkTirade]

51. Because this is inglish.

We don't due konsistancy.

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. Words ending in -ant and -ent, -ance and -ence

I can never remember which words have the 'a' and which have the 'e.'

[NMDemDist2]

30. tragic

I always want to stick a "D" in the middle

and compliments. I always want to add an extra "E"

and the, it's almost always teh now

:hide:

[Broken_Hero]

31. hugh, as in huge...

Moran, as in moron...Series, as in Serious...thats about it...

[NJmaverick]

32. argument and judgmental

What do people have against "E"s?

[mainegreen]

33. neccessary.

See?

[zanne]

34. Words with double consonants. nt

[suninvited]

37. Definitely

I always want to use an A for the second I.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

38. I defintly misspell definetly a lot. n/t

[LucyParsons]

39. till

It seems to be that the abbreviation for "until" should be "til" - but it's "till". Which to me, is a check-out in a British retail shop.

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Ask WannaBe about Amaryllis next time you see her.

I dare you.

[Bake]

42. I seldom misspell anything, but I can't type for shit.

"Trail" instead of "trial."
"Compalint" instead of "complaint."
"Palintiff" instead of "plaintiff."

You get teh idea.

"Teh" for "the."

:rofl:

Bake

[DarkTirade]

47. Those two sound like D&D classes. Compalint and Palintiff.

I'm a level 3 Compalint! :P

[DarkTirade]

43. None. Ever.

*presses the 'Check Spelling' button to make sure.* :P

[hyphenate]

45. There are a couple that I tend to spell

the British way, with an "s" or a "c" instead, like organisation, realise, and defence, other such.

I also almost always spell judgement with the 2 "e"s, but again, it's a variant, and it's allowed. I had one person insist I was spelling it wrong, but a look into a dictionary proved I was right as well.

Here in New England, there are some words which are spelled the British way anyhow, like centre, theatre, and the "re" instead of an "er" way.

For a long time, I spelled "development" "developement" though. Not anymore.

[TommyO]

46. Judgement

um, er, judgment.

edited to add: Damn, already taken!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

48. Also, "exaggeration"

And "exaggerate".

[auntAgonist]

49. refrigerator. I always want to type refridgerator

either way it looks weird.

:shrug:

[TCJ70]

50. lAl fo thme...

Ykies...

[Pierre.Suave]

52. waht, I dont mispel any werds

:P