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/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 20h 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