# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![rostfrei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@rostfrei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rostfrei)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/41 "2008-03-19T15:00:54Z")
In my job, I frequently type the word “insurance” as “insurnance”, almost every time. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/42 "2008-03-19T15:31:15Z")
I’ve very pround of myself when I type “proud” correctly. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/43 "2008-03-19T16:02:20Z")
Clevelnad Remeber Neice ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/44 "2008-03-19T16:02:45Z")
“Design” as “Deisgn.” Kinda sucks when you’re a designer. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/45 "2008-03-19T20:41:51Z")
I tyep everythign prefectly. Ok, ok. I often type “lsit” instead of “list”. Geek anecdote with bonus software hack: I’ve used the old DOS command-line LIST program for years to view text files. I’ve typed LSIT so many times that I finally made a batch file called LSIT.BAT that actually runs [LIST.COM](http://LIST.COM) and then when LIST is exited displays “By the way, you typed lsit, not list” ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/46 "2008-03-19T20:52:32Z")
“Weird” always looks weird. I reverse the vowels, and then it looks _weirder_, so I put them back again. I also always end up with “enveloper,” whenever I attempt to type “envelope.” This is because I have to type “developer” twenty times a day at work, and so after typing “V-E-L-O-P-E,” the “R” follows out of habit. Stupid Pavlovian fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/47 "2008-03-19T21:27:19Z")
Oooh, can I play too? Being dyslexic, there are a ton of words that I always type incorrectly. Any word that begins with an “s” will be typed with a “c” and vice versa. Every single time. It’s one of my dyslexic quirks, and I know about it, so I always double- and triple-check those words. Funny enough, that’s the only thing that I always mess up while typing. I mean, I make typos like anyone else, but nothing that falls under “regular” mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/48 "2008-03-19T21:34:05Z")
I type “lsit” as well, with the added bonus that I always think of the back-masked message in Empty Spaces off the Wall by Pink Floyd, right before the bee-like solo before it says “what shall we use to fill the empty spaces…”, even though it’s more of a “NSIT” than a “LSIT”. I always want to type “soulution” instead of solution, but I never do. Ditto for “entingeering” for engineering, and that typo is surprisingly in the wild on Google. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/49 "2008-03-19T21:55:04Z")
**Helath** for health is my most common typo. ---
**Author:** ![Kyrie\_Eleison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kyrie_eleison/32/7682_2.png) [@Kyrie\_Eleison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyrie_Eleison)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/50 "2008-03-19T21:57:27Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] “moer” Moering a file in UNIX does little unless you’ve aliased the typo due to frequency of usage. [/QUOTE] I came in to post this one. You’ve misspelled more incorrectly, though: cayenne\_~:385% grep more .cshrc alias mroe more I find that sometimes I mistype entire Unix commands, which kind of freaks me out. I will, for instance, intend to type “ifconfig”, and look at the terminal window to find that I’ve typed “netstat”. It’s not that I confuse the commands, either, it’s that my fingers have surprised me by typing an entirely different word than the one I intended. It only happens with closely related commands that I use frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/51 "2008-03-19T22:05:55Z")
For some reason I always seem to hit the “i” _en passant_ when typing the “ou” combination – yoiu shoiuld see what it looks like if I don’t proofread! Also teh for the – except for when I’m doing in on purpose! ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/52 "2008-03-19T23:10:47Z")
[QUOTE=Kyrie Eleison] I find that sometimes I mistype entire Unix commands, which kind of freaks me out. I will, for instance, intend to type “ifconfig”, and look at the terminal window to find that I’ve typed “netstat”. It’s not that I confuse the commands, either, it’s that my fingers have surprised me by typing an entirely different word than the one I intended. It only happens with closely related commands that I use frequently. [/QUOTE] This is one thing I do regularly. It is part of my dyslexia – I do it in all of my written communications – even handwritten. I must proofread everything that I write, it’s become second nature to proofread IM’s before I send them. I can’t impress upon you how much I appreciate the computer and not having to use pen/pencil and paper! Imagine writing a letter that is supposed to say “How are you? Things are well here.” but instead says “When is the rain going to end, I made monkeys float.” It’s that bad sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/53 "2008-03-20T00:04:51Z")
I am a technoidiot, but you need to go to youtube and search for “The Impotence of Proofreading” by Taylor Mali. Maybe it’s just becasue I’m an English teacher, but it cracks me up every tiem. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/54 "2008-03-20T03:08:13Z")
I’ve been so condfused - but it does seem an appropriate word to mistype. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/55 "2008-03-20T05:01:08Z")
ifcongif is mistake I make constantly. I’m always typing ls at Dos prompts. At one point I broke down and put a ls.bat in my path. That proved to be a bad idea when I started getting in the habit of typing things like “ls /w”. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/56 "2008-03-20T13:40:49Z")
I have got myself so trained to type the name of my city as “Englewood” instead of “Engelwood” that I have a hard time typing any word that begins with “Eng.” I’ve seen “Engelwood” on everything from envelopes to TV news reports. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/57 "2008-03-20T14:31:41Z")
[QUOTE=Rysto] ifcongif is mistake I make constantly. I’m always typing ls at Dos prompts. At one point I broke down and put a ls.bat in my path. That proved to be a bad idea when I started getting in the habit of typing things like “ls /w”. [/QUOTE] There are collections like CYGWIN, that have many ports of Unix commands like ls, cat, tail, etc. Dump them in a c:\utils directory add it to the path, and you’re set. ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/58 "2008-03-20T15:56:26Z")
About half the time I type “to the” as “tot he,” which a spellchecker is fine with. I can’t seem to type “angiotensin” without adding Ns, but it doesn’t come up that much. (I’m a medical editor, though, so it comes up sometimes.) Most of the time I will screw up the “-ly” words. I’m also a fairly fast but mistake-prone 2-fingered typist – if someone had explained to be in high school that I’d be typing my days away, I would have learned to touch-type. ---
**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/59 "2008-03-20T16:04:35Z")
I do “tot he” a lot, too. Also, every time I try to type the word “fantasy,” it comes out “fantasty.” ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842/60 "2008-03-20T16:42:15Z")
With me it’s “ie” words, for example. Belief, believer, atheist, transceiver, etc. “I before e except after c” is a rule my subconscious seems to hate. The exceptions don’t help. Almost every post, I have to correct some. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-you-type-wrong-every-time/441842.md?page=4)