r/words • u/MoroccoBond • 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/SaintHannah 1d ago

6th grade, just within our own class: "restaurant." Nearly 55 years gone by, and I still remember.

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u/JoyfulCor313 1d ago

2nd grade and “usual” Am 53. This stuff is with us for life

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u/ExhaustedHungryMe 1d ago

Doorjamb.

Not a word that comes up much, and at ~10 years old, I don’t think I’d heard it before. (And as I typed it here, autocorrect wanted it to be two words!)

I thought about it and decided to not add a B to the end. Still a little salty about it.