Words that you have a hard time spelling

[Anonymous]

All of you have done a great job of documenting tricky words! It seems like double c, r, or s throws off many!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weird
Why isn’t it i before e like wiener or wield?
It’s like weight. But why?

it is weird! Should be I before e except after c

I spell weird wrong the first try every time.

[Anonymous]

Accommodations

[Anonymous]

Anyone else losing their ability to spell? I used to be pretty intuitive and had a decent memory for spelling. But not so much anymore. I'm assuming it's due to spell check, autocorrect, predictive text. Looking up a word in the dictionary forces you to focus on the word more. Plus as a minor lexophile I would also spend an extra few minutes looking at other words on the dictionary page every time I looked up a word. I miss that.

[Anonymous]

I mess up homophones

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of mine are on this thread. I feel seen!
My words are:

Separate
Definitely
Calendar

It drives me crazy every time I write these words I have to think about it.

These are mine too!

[Anonymous]

Hors d’Oeuvres

I had to Google it. I can never spell it correctly.

[Anonymous]

Deodorant.

I think I finally have it. But for a long time I’ve been autocorrected from deoderant.

[Anonymous]

rhythm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:license

Same. Perfect score on sat English portion, huge reader, large vocabulary and my brain refuses to remember who to spell this word and diarrhea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else losing their ability to spell? I used to be pretty intuitive and had a decent memory for spelling. But not so much anymore. I'm assuming it's due to spell check, autocorrect, predictive text. Looking up a word in the dictionary forces you to focus on the word more. Plus as a minor lexophile I would also spend an extra few minutes looking at other words on the dictionary page every time I looked up a word. I miss that.

Yes. Spelling and driving skills. I blame Covid for the later.

[Anonymous]

hors doevres

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hors d’Oeuvres

I had to Google it. I can never spell it correctly.

Oh gosh yes. That is one I have to look up every time. Or just say appetizers instead.

[Anonymous]

occasionally

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of mine are on this thread. I feel seen!
My words are:

Separate
Definitely
Calendar

It drives me crazy every time I write these words I have to think about it.

These are mine too!

My 5th grade teacher wrote SepArate on the board and said, "See how the A sepArates the two halves of separate?" Brilliant!

Hors d'oeuvres for me.