What words do/did you find difficult to spell?

paralysed

Quite a bit lately, where I find myself in situations where I'm writing a word (that I use a lot) but a have never spelled. Of course there are also those words that I just have difficulty with... many of these words, I get wrong simply because I don't know whether it's an 'a' or an 'e' in a certain part of the word... something like 'relevant' or 'collagen' for example. Some words are difficult merely because they are extensions of the word itself - like 'busiest'. And after many years, I still don't know whether it's one 'c', or one 's' in 'occasion'!

Here some tricky words I thought of:

deny, fierce, shield, bewilder, rhubarb, stubbornness, inauguration, croissant, schizophrenic, buoyant, lasagne, artefact, surgeon, vouch, errand, genuinely, manoeuvre, haemorrhage, syllable, aisle, taut, mediterranean, loiter, motto, johnathan, accommodation, surreal, raisins, raspberry

Please post your own!

Allinall

Paralisys

Barry Badrinath

Ramalamadingdongbingbongdongo.

Nailed it!

joebloggs32

Dislexeya

Conall Cernach

Separate. I always spell it "seperate" and then have to go back to correct it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Protoantidisesthablishmentarianism.

I always forget if the second last 'a' should be an 'e'.

The biggest hindrance to spelling seems to be that we mispronounce many words, or our regional accents put a sound in there that the spelling doesn't reflect.

paralysed

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Separate. I always spell it "seperate" and then have to go back to correct it.

first genuine answer out of 4!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Dyslexia, ironically enough.

Nessecary.

stimpson

As I'm scared of long words I try to avoid spelling hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

Turtyturd

Necessary.

Immediately.

Winterlong

Apartment. Or is it apparment. Or apartmant....

Turtyturd

Didn't notice the op.

Kate...always spell it Helen.

indioblack

Ignacio Embarrassed Underarm wrote: »

Protoantidisesthablishmentarianism.

I always forget if the second last 'a' should be an 'e'.

The biggest hindrance to spelling seems to be that we mispronounce many words, or our regional accents put a sound in there that the spelling doesn't reflect.

By the time I neared the end of that word I'd have forgotten what it was I was trying to spell.

Logo

Can't pronounce anonymity

munster87

I'm not sure when to use practice or practise. I don't want to know the proper usage though.

Alun

"Accommodation" is my favourite one to misspell along with "satellite", which is ironic seeing as I used to work in the space industry

Words like marriage/carriage. I'll always type it '...aige' first and only know it's wrong because spell check underlines it.

I should remember which way the i and a go, but I never do. I'm always convinced it's the right way round because it looks right to me, and I'm always surprised I got it wrong. Again.

Lisha

I spell definitely as defiantly sometimes.

Jimbob1977

Ignacio Embarrassed Underarm wrote: »

Protoantidisesthablishmentarianism.

I always forget if the second last 'a' should be an 'e'.

The biggest hindrance to spelling seems to be that we mispronounce many words, or our regional accents put a sound in there that the spelling doesn't reflect.

You've put an unnecessary 'h' about half way through

Unless it was a test... cunning

clairek6

Diahorea

Stigura

February.

That Is how it's spelled, yeah? F**king incredible. I've just sussed out, last week, that I've spent six f**king decades writing and saying " Febuary " ! I don't think I'll bother to try and change now. That moment's passed.

red ears

Leitrim and receive thank God for spell check.

Sam Kade

Lots of people on boards spell brakes as breaks one man blames his dyslexia for it, I'm not exactly sure if he suffers from dyslexia.

ToddyDoody

I used to always spell it mutch. (much).... I like my tea.

danjo-xx

Annaversary always gets me in a twist

wakka12

Significant, I find it hard to spell when Im writing essays really quickly because you always pronounce the 'c' more as 'g' when you say it verbally

WestWicklow1

But sometimes you have to spell incorrectly especially on boards.

I know it's sh1te but what can you do?

Fuzzy Clam

Difficult.

Rubberlegs

Necessary, proffession, liscense, subconcsious. It's the damn c's and s's and knowing if there is two of a letter or not

Calendar. Usually mix up the e and last a and have to go back and change.

Accommodation always gets me too.

El Tarangu

Words like 'level(l)ing', 'level(l)ed' - I'm never sure if it is one L or two at the end.

It's not difficult to spell, but I find 'initiative' tricky to type.

Sonics2k

Definitely.

Spell it wrong 99% of the time and have to go back and fix it.

Beanntraigheach

receive/recieve

Rubberlegs

Beanntraigheach wrote: »

receive/recieve

The ony way I remember to spell words like this is "i before e, except after c "

Tigger

most of the words

Tigger

73Cat wrote: »

The ony way I remember to spell words like this is "i before e, except after c "

i rea that its more likley t hr reverse

oneilla

Always spell geust and geuss wrong.

Mister Vain

Schwarzenegger

Maintenance

Rhythm

paralysed

Mister Vain wrote: »

Maintenance

and there's your memory trick.

SEPT 23 1989

Personnell

infogiver

Desicion and shoulder and Michael

GrumpyMe

manoeuvre

red ears

Bueatiful is one i used to struggle with.

red ears

Purposeful misspelling for good effect..

tayto lover

From reading threads on Boards there are many who have a problem spelling -

Lose. They continuously spell it loose.

Permabear

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Surreptitious

i spel lik dis cos i past on forims al da tim.

Four Phucs Ache

I had trouble spelling hospital for a few years but I nailed it when I reached 3rd class.

Unnecessary
Is the second n unnecessary? I guess not

byte

73Cat wrote: »

The ony way I remember to spell words like this is "i before e, except after c "

That, I think, was one stupid rule to be taught, as it's often wrong.

On that, I often spell wierd/weird wrong, probably because of that rule ingrained in my brain!

Stigura

73Cat wrote: »

liscense

F**k That Word!!!