# Are there words that your fingers want to spell wrong?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 16, 2005, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521 "2005-06-16T11:51:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/41 "2005-06-17T11:27:58Z")

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Led Zeppeling. Every word ending in -in often gets an accidental -ing.  
Liek = like  
Lobe = love  
Pacle = Pavle (my boyfriend’s name)  
Becasue = because  
And always, when I make any of these typos, “I can’t tyep” or “I can’t tyoe”.

Oh, and I hate when I see “convience” instead of “convenience”, but once, somehow, I managed to type that in my livejournal. :smack: GAH!!! ULTIMATE MEGA GAH!

Oh, and a lot of Z’s arrive in words where they don’t go. I just typed MEZGZA instead of MEGA.

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**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:** [June 18, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/42 "2005-06-18T00:27:07Z")

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**Himeslf. Udner. Engagament.** And my all-time favorite, **disctionary.**

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**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-words-that-your-fingers-want-to-spell-wrong/308521/43 "2005-06-18T02:31:23Z")

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Here are some of the ones that get me nearly every time if I am not careful:

fresh (freash)  
couldn’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t (cou;dn’t, wou;dn’t, shou;dn’t)  
put (out)  
out (put)  
play (okay)  
took (tool)  
you (yiu)

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