gauge
Cemetery
Genealogy
I don’t even know what word this is supposed to be; definition, please?
Bureau
and a whole lot of words that use trhe french “eau” as part of their make up…
FML
Forty.
fluoride
fluorescent
Receive: I know it’s the poster child of " i before e" , but I always have to think twice before writing it. Same with “weird”… Weird and Damn, I’m edumacated enough…
Oh, and Tomorrow, I always want an extra M in there.
Neither leisured foreign counterfeiter could attain either weird height without forfeiting protein. My neighbor’s eight beige reindeer weigh too much to be sent by freight.
I’m that way with “amount,” I think because there are two D’s in “address.”
No, I know that doesn’t make sense.
If people would learn to pronounce it with only one “u,” maybe they’d spell it right.
Enmity - I reversed the N and the M, both in writing and in speaking, until someone here pointed it out and I nearly fell off my chair.
Acquire and acquiesce are both tricky, but having been eliminated from a spelling bee by the first, I now auto-correct.
Calendar, lavender, and amethyst.
Pyrenees (mountains)?
Penis?
Came up with a good one while reading last night – prerogative.
Perquisite would be good, too.
Blame Seinfeld.
I’m the dictionary for the family (seriously - it’s freaking annoying), but I have a few words I always misspell
definite
potential
restaurant
vacuum
…and others I can’t think of now. Thank god for Firefox’s spell check.
rhythm
cappuccino (I always have to look this up, and I’m a freaking former spelling bee champion, for god’s sake. And yes, I am still irrationally proud of that, thank you very much.)
I’m a great speller, and a lot of the words listed in this thread get the best of me. I just never took the time to memorize them, I guess. Here are a few more that are often misspelled.
Knowledgeable
roommate
aesthetic
Meh. I’m dyslexic, so everything looks misspelled to me at first. In fact, the only way I know I have spelled “weird” correctly is that it looks totally wrong to my eyes.
Aqueduct.