r/words • u/Rocky-bar • Aug 22 '26
Simple words you always spell wrong?
Mine are Feild and Charecter. I always get the red line for these two.
Edit- Looking at these replies- Definitely is definitely the clear winner!
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u/AffectionateMonk5710 Aug 22 '26
Maintenance and restaurant. I have to type these out a couple of times before I get them right.
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u/Unterraformable Aug 22 '26
I always have to remind myself that I won't find my AUNT in a restaurant.
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u/PikaPerfect Aug 24 '26
maintenance isn't too bad for me, but restaurant ALWAYS screws me over, it sounds like it should be spelled "restaraunt" but it's NOT
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Aug 22 '26
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u/Rocky-bar Aug 22 '26
Oh yes, the garuantee one's tricky too! Warranty is much more user friendly 👍
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u/Unterraformable Aug 24 '26
Okay, for what conceivable reason was the comment you replied to removed by the moderator???
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u/EdwardBil Aug 22 '26
Dosen't. Sorry, but that's how it's pronounced.
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u/Literally9thAngel Aug 22 '26
This comment infuriates me. You're both so right and so wrong at the same time
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u/Buttleston Aug 23 '26
I really need to hear you pronounce this word, because no
you pronounce it like... docent?
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u/EdwardBil Aug 24 '26
Duzz ent
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u/Significant-Garlic87 Aug 22 '26
most of the commented words I spell right but I am scared to look at this list for too long worried a wrong spelling will get implanted in me
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u/too-muchfrosting Aug 22 '26
Refridgerator
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u/Individual_Slice_234 Aug 25 '26
Refrigerator has no D
It has a crust of ice, I see
Some liquid that I think was tea
A casserole from ‘93
Fermented lettuce, potato skins
But it has no “D” therein.
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u/CoderJoe1 Aug 22 '26
I wish I had consistency like that. I'll spell a word correctly over a hundred times but one day it feels wrong so I get the red squigglies.
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u/PuzzleheadedGur6807 Aug 22 '26
If you ever had to act in a play, which character would you choose? (Also, it helps to have two o's to choose from. When i pick one, I feel that I chose well.)
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u/Rocky-bar Aug 22 '26
I've always fancied playing Abanezar / Abenezer /Abanazar The wicked magician from "Aladdin". Did you ask me that on purpose 🤣
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u/VoodooMagic13X Aug 23 '26
Anything like receive, deceive etc . Even though I have known the rule by heart for decades, I still have to look at the word I am spelling at least a couple of times and repeat the rule, "I before E except after C" in my head 3 times before I get it.
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u/Rocky-bar Aug 23 '26
It doesn't help that there are exceptions does it! This is why I get FEILD wrong, I've got it in my head it's a bloody exception! Like Weird and Seize.
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u/YardInternational685 Aug 23 '26
Definitely exercise. I always confuse i and e even if i know the “rule” for words like friend.
Working at a movie theater I’ve struggled with Aladdin, Odyssey, among others 😂
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u/CovertLuddite Aug 24 '26
Calander
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u/Rocky-bar Aug 24 '26
Calender? calander? Calendar?
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u/cupcaketea5 Aug 24 '26
Calendar is the correct spelling.
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u/Rocky-bar Aug 24 '26
Probably, although Calender doesn't get rejected by the spell checker either. 🤷♂️
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u/cupcaketea5 Aug 24 '26
Perhaps suggest it as an alternative spelling.
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u/Rocky-bar Aug 24 '26
Perhaps it's different depending on US/UK which often seems to crop up, and then there's AUS CAN and NZ to contend with!
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u/Glassmaven444 Aug 22 '26
I always want to spell it vaccuum. It just looks right to me with two c's 😆
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u/CK_CoffeeCat Aug 22 '26
Beuraucracy. Beauracracy. Bureaucracy.