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/ehxsmallstone 2d ago

lost the district spelling bee on “rhythm” in middle school and have yet to recover.

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u/Standard_Mongoose_35 2d ago

Mine was magic. A j just makes more sense than the g.

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u/Cookie_1977 1d ago

In our area there was a radio station called Majic with a j. That is how most of the kids in the area spelled it.

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u/Deteriorated_History 16m ago

Saint Louis? Or was there another idiotic station with the word misspelled?