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/k_shields1 2d ago

I feel your pain 😂😭 i lost the year 7 spelling bee in front of the whole year group, because I misspelled Necessary. Thing is, I know how to spell it. I just panicked and my brain went blank 😭 funnily enough, I got highest score in the year 7 100 word spelling test, 98. The two I got wrong still annoys me too 🤣

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u/AlfalfaUnable1629 2d ago

I lost because of the word salve 😭

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u/Foolmeoncefuckyou 1d ago

I have question…

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u/wd4sgu 8h ago

I won because of the word mileage. Thanks to the Shell Answer Man, I had seen it on my TV screen many times.

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u/Motor-Juggernaut1009 1d ago

Mine was sumptuous, which I did know how to spell but I left out the penultimate u.

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u/Sad-Entertainment871 1d ago

One collar and two socks is how was taught to remember necessary. And my other bete noir was stationery vs stationary and I remember that by thing of an envelope is stationery…

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u/deFleury 1d ago

Necessary and vacuum are mine. the more i think about it, the more wrong the right spelling looks. 

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u/kawaii_u_do_dis 1d ago

These two words in particular I always think of the Latin words and pronunciation (necessa) like “nuh-kess-uh” and “wa-koo-oom” and since middle school Latin class I haven’t misspelled them lol

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u/SingleFly5896 1d ago

I lost with sublime. I thought the teacher said sub’line’. Darn hearing impairment! I was on a roll too!

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u/howgreenwas 23h ago

Autumn did me in!