# Are there words that you type wrong, every time? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 18, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842 "2008-03-18T21:59:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/21 "2008-03-19T00:32:11Z")
I continually misuse parental and prenatal interchangeably. It doesn’t help that they are anagrams of each other. (and I made one of my friend’s night when I spent a couple minutes talking about the evils of manufactured memories and how it created the belief of _prenatal_ child abuse in many of the patients of those who were looking for buried memories.) ---
**Author:** ![bubble\_pop\_electric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@bubble\_pop\_electric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubble_pop_electric)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/22 "2008-03-19T00:34:09Z")
Like Like Like Like Like Like Like Liek ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/23 "2008-03-19T00:38:11Z")
Soul often comes out as sould. I often type mouth as _mought_. I have no idea why ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/24 "2008-03-19T00:51:29Z")
Convienient. Particularily. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/25 "2008-03-19T02:14:05Z")
I’d estimate I type _believe_ as _beleive_ about 75% of the time. Another common typo for me is _ration_ for _ratio_; apparently my fingers think that the letters _tio_ should always be followed by a _n_. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/26 "2008-03-19T02:20:42Z")
convenience. (_veni, vidi, vici_) It should be convienence. I think. As in _via_. _checks OED_ … Goddammit. ---
**Author:** ![Sarahfeena](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarahfeena/32/519_2.png) [@Sarahfeena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarahfeena)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/27 "2008-03-19T02:59:48Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Absolutly. Unfortunaetly, my own naem is one of them. [/QUOTE] Me, too…can’t tell you how many times I’ve typed “Saraj” instead of “Sarah.” I fear that one day I will send an e-mail signed Saraj to someone and they will think I am a complete moron who can’t spell my own name. Maybe there IS a reason some folks spell it “Sara.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/28 "2008-03-19T03:19:58Z")
How about aobut? I think I make that mistake because it allows me to go back and forth from left to right. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/29 "2008-03-19T03:31:33Z")
Detriot is a major city in Michigan. ---
**Author:** ![iDoctor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a88e4f/32.png) [@iDoctor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iDoctor)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/30 "2008-03-19T04:17:11Z")
I can’t think of anythinkg I type wrong. There must be somethinkg… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/31 "2008-03-19T04:58:53Z")
When in need of information, I occasionally find I’ve surfed to _[gtoogle.com](http://gtoogle.com)_. G is directly below T on the keyboard and it’s easy to hit both at once. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/32 "2008-03-19T10:30:26Z")
I generally type “always” as “alwasy” and “the” as “teh.” I find a greater problem for me is leaving out whole words. And then proof-reading it and not noticing, because the word was in my head so it must be on the page. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/33 "2008-03-19T11:31:44Z")
99% of the time when I mean to type “field” I type “filed” Brian ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/34 "2008-03-19T12:10:43Z")
“moer” Moering a file in UNIX does little unless you’ve aliased the typo due to frequency of usage. ---
**Author:** ![Contrary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/db5fbb/32.png) [@Contrary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrary)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/35 "2008-03-19T12:47:38Z")
I worked for Sprint for almost a decade. Typing spring takes supreme concentration. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/36 "2008-03-19T13:28:57Z")
[QUOTE=EastCoastPearl] I habitually stick the letter “n” at the end of some words that end in vowels. “Ontarion” is one that comes to mind now, and I know a guy with the last name of “Postma” who ends up becoming “Postman” most of the time. [/QUOTE] Same; For me, it’s “ratio” that always comes out as “ration”. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/37 "2008-03-19T14:13:28Z")
Receiving…recieving… ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/38 "2008-03-19T14:31:07Z")
Oh, here is a CLASSIC: “capabilites.” Try googling “corporate capabilites” and you will see that many companies prefer these to the more old fashioned “capabilities.” I haven’t checked google to see who shares my preferences for these spellings, but I bet they get loads of hits: Commericial Enviornment Incidently ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/39 "2008-03-19T14:32:27Z")
I always type kdiney or kindey instead of kidney. I’m a vet, so I do use this word often. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/40 "2008-03-19T14:53:10Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Absolutly. Unfortunaetly, my own naem is one of them. Must be a lack of protien in my diet. OR mabye too much caffiene. [/QUOTE] I’d say it’s the Vodka. 🙂 My typo word is “fresh”. Every damn time it comes out “freash” if I’m not careful. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842.md?page=3)