Is there a word that you always have trouble spelling?

Discreet vs. discrete

cinnamon

Separate. I'm always tempted to spell it seperate. There was even a time when I had myself convinced it was either "seperate" or "separate" depending on whether or not it was an adjective or a verb, but I could never remember which way it went.

Sad, really.

Rythm

onomatopoeia

manoeuvre

hors d'oeuvres

weird. .. or wierd?

r1 We know why you use that word

Occasion

All of then.

Them—Dammit!

Appalachia

Their. Come one, you know what I mean!

One of the most frequently misspelled words on DL is MILLENNIAL.

Potatoe

Hale Satin!

Helle Bury

Oldcunthasbeenlaughingstock*

The name Michael.

Embarrassing

Fuchsia

Separate is a good one. I always get tripped up on macaroni.

Rye due yew knead too no?

No, none.

LEAVE MISSPELLING ALONE!

"Itinerary" and "questionnaire" are the two that always get me!

Personnel and bureaucracy

Archaeology

Anything with a u in it

écureuil and I can't pronounce it well either.

Millennial

Privilege

Queue.

A simple, one-syllable word with crazy spelling.

A word I always have a problem spelling AND pronouncing is "entrepreneur"

What I don't understand is why people refuse to use spell check to avoid these problems.

Well, I do. I don't know about others. That's what modern-day conveniences are for.

Even DL points out spelling errors.

License for some reason.

R3 An teacher once told me there’s “a rat” in separate and I always remember that.

Caribbean and Moroccan

Thnaks

[quote]License for some reason.

Be careful with that one.

My kids’ names.

because I mangle it so much that spell check says 🤷 when I am on the computer

Micheal. While it is an uncommon variant of Michael, I married a Mike. Who is called Mick when in the UK and Australia, confusing me further.

Isreal. Just like it sounds, sez me, and my brother-in-law is Jewish.

Carribean. I've been there and should know better.

Apparantly. Apparently.

ProstAtute!

Make your teacher blithe and merry ... put no 'a's in CEMETERY.

Quite a few since the internet.

Genitalia

[quote]Embarrassing

Someone got me with that one. I was so embarrased. Or was it embarassed?

Permanent. I ALWAYS initially spell it "permenant." I never learn.

R42, one thing to remember is that in Hebrew, the -el suffix gives the word or name an association with God (El). Hence the names of the archangels: Michael, Raphael, Azrael, Gabriel, Uriel, Jophiel, etc., and some biblical names: Ishmael, Israel, Samuel. So spelling these names another way would be "incorrect."

[quote] I always get tripped up on macaroni.

What's so had about macaroni?

The words with a mixture of double and single consonants are hard to remember.

License also took me a long time to remember. The way I remember it: C comes before S in the alphabet.

I always thought fuchsia was spelled fuschia.

Bouillon, I thought was spelled boullion.

Weird, I thought was spelled wierd.

[quote]Micheal. While it is an uncommon variant of Michael…

“Uncommon variant” = stupid parents.

It's hard getting conscious and conscience right.

A lot of DLers type "dominate" as an adjective when what they mean is "dominant."

[quote]one thing to remember is that in Hebrew, the -el suffix gives the word or name an association with God

Is that why Superman's real name is Kal-El, and his Dad is Jor-El?

Covfefe.

r12 I used to do that too until I realized it was "the ir" so I always remember it is "the" first. You won't forget again.r

Fuchsia is easier if you remember it's named after a guy named Fuchs.

[quote] It's hard getting conscious and conscience right.

Con-science. With science.

[quote] Their. Come one, you know what I mean!

Not really.

"They're" is a contraction of "they are." The apostrophe takes the place of the "a."

They're exercising their right to free speech.

Honasty

Amateur.

If you know, you know.

I'm with R5. Also I misspell Thomas Cranmer (often spell it Cramner)...andthat's my time period.

[quote]manoeuvre

Maneuver?

burple

I recently found out that San Bernardino was spelled with 2 Rs. I thought it was Bernadino because that's pretty much how it's pronounced. However, it makes sense to have 2 Rs, like St. Bernard.

I have no problem spelling it but I cannot type "network" without really concentrating, slowly using both forefingers - it invariably comes out as "netwrok".

Which was a problem for me years ago when I was managing a network upgrade project and had to type it all day.

[quote]I have no problem spelling it but I cannot type "network" without really concentrating, slowly using both forefingers - it invariably comes out as "netwrok".

Just like jsut.

Vacuum and hors de’vours (see?)

I will not be ignored!

Caesar. I always want to spell it Ceasar.

Separate is another one. Somewhere, I got it stuck in my head as seperate.

For some reason every time I attempt to type "casino" my hands/brain type "casion"...every single time! It's so weird. Also whenever I intend to type "speed," my brain types "speedo"--it even happened just now as I was typing this post! It's def a Freudian slip, as I have a massive Speedo fetish and have typed the word "speedo" probably tens of thousands of times in my gay life.

Guarantee, though I just spelled it right without thinking. Yay!

I actually consider myself an excellent speller but I always want to hand write gau…then I stop and fix it.

R70, even worse are "definately" and "defiantly" (yes, some try to use that for definitely).

Carrie Snodgress, not Snodgrass. Also, though I can spell it, for some reason I can never remember if opaque means you can see through it or you can’t.

R1 - I got a 98 on my first university English class for using discrete instead of discreet. I’ve never forgotten the difference.

[quote] "defiantly" (yes, some try to use that for definitely).

I've seen that and it looks stupid.

Bureaucracy

Broccoli

I always crack up when I see defiantly.

“experts”

diahhrrehhaaah

vaccuuum

diarrhoea

encyclopaedia

Tomorrow -- can never remember whether two Ms or two Rs.

Business. I just think of busi-ness now.

femininomenon

I always want to spell 'lavender' with an -ar ending like calendar.

Obstreperous. Need my spellcheck to come through, every single time.

r86 Same! I recall like it was yesterday when my English teacher corrected my first "tommorow" a quarter of a century ago.

Ghonorrhaea

some of these?

Yacht and Ophthalmologist.

Just remember --there is a rat in separate!

Strength and its derivatives (-ening/-ened/etc.). Nope, for the love of god, never managed to. Thanks for autocorrect on this one.

Bureaucracy. Almost always have to look it up. Even autocorrect often doesn’t help.

Villain - why is the ‘a’ before the ‘i’ ’?? It doesn’t make sense.

Putting the 'i' before the 'e' would turn it into a three-syllable word, r97. That would really make no sense.

restuarant / restaurant

I have trouble with the name of the former President. It keeps coming out "Turd" or "Toxic" or autocorrect kicks in and I get "Threat" or sometimes "Totalitarian."

Because it's derived from Latin -> Old French -> English, R97

[quote] Because it's derived from Latin -> Old French -> English

That’s not an explanation. Many, maybe most, words in English that are derived from other languages aren’t spelled exactly the same as their original form or follow exactly the spelling rules of the original language. Even words from Old English and Middle English aren’t all exactly the same as they were then. There’s even differences in spelling between American English and British English. The spelling of villain could have been reformed like other words were centuries ago, but it wasn’t.

Canceled.

I don't understand why this is correct and cancellation is also correct.

Pussy

US spelling: canceled, traveled, marveled, modeled, fueled, initialed

UK spelling: cancelled, travelled, marvelled, modelled, fuelled, initialled

weird

guard

Mischievous – I keep wanting to stick another I after that V. Maybe because so many people mispronounce it that way.

I also kept misspelling narcissistic as narssicistic for the longest time until one day I had enough, looked it up, made a mnemonic for it (C comes before S in the alphabet, just like in this word) and now I nail it every single time. I do have to thank Trump because without him, I wouldn't be using it on an almost daily basis.

r91 In similar vein, syphilis and chlamydia for me. Just in general, if a word contains both a Y and an I, and the Y isn't at the end of the word, I'm completely fucking lost.