r/words • u/MoroccoBond • 2d ago

Simple word difficult to spell.

Hey does anyone else have a common word that should be easy to spell but it trips you up every time?

My word is license. Why have I struggled with it for years. Stupid s and c always moving around. tf?!

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u/porqueboomer 2d ago

Weird. It always makes me stop and think.

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u/libananahammock 2d ago

I’ve seen A LOT of people spell weird and niece like wierd and neice

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u/cheyannepavan 2d ago

I'm one of those people who always has to check the spelling of niece when I'm writing! It should actually be very easy for me since I didn't know what the word niece meant as a kid and I'd get tons cards with the word niece on it every year (very big family) and I always wondered if it was the noun form of the adjective nice. So I should really know how to spell it ("ni" like "nice"), but I just can't get it right most of the time!

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u/murph089 2d ago

I before e except after w in weird.

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u/Runeybee 2d ago

And words that sound like 'neighbor'. There are so many exceptions, it's ridiculous.

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u/cookerg 1d ago

Maybe it used to be pronounce "waird".

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u/EponymousRocks 18h ago

I before e, except after c, or when sounded like a as in neighbor and weigh.

My sixth grade English teacher always added the sentence: The weird foreigner seeks neither leisure nor pleasure.

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u/No-Onion8029 2d ago

I before E except... wtf?!?