# What words do you ALWAYS misspell? Be honist! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 26, 2002, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069 "2002-06-26T17:48:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [June 30, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/41 "2002-06-30T04:17:42Z")
I can’t spell “fuchsia” or “fuschia” or “fucshia” or “fushcia”. I can spell, but cannot type, Detriot. Uh, Detroit. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/42 "2002-06-30T10:50:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rasa \* > \*\* > > I was taught as a child to remember that there’s “a rat” in separate. Helps.\*\* That does help. Cool. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2002, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/43 "2002-06-30T11:13:25Z")
Believe always comes out as beleive, even though I know the correct spelling. I also ‘feel’ wrong when I spell/type words incorrectly, but that one slips under my radar. My spelling is impeccable, but my typing is execrable (hey, a Noel Cowardesque rhyme!). This is not helped by the fact that half of the letters on my laptop keyboard have rubbed away, and two keys are missing entirely, so that m and g are typed on the little nodules underneath. Double letters also occasionally (there’s an example) trip me up sometimes when I’m tired. Or should that be ‘doble’ letters in America? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/44 "2002-07-01T01:10:20Z")
I was at my sister’s house recently and she asked me how to spell “maneuver.” I couldn’t for the life of me figure it out, so we had to turn her computer just to spell-check it. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/45 "2002-07-01T01:50:48Z")
Well, Cecil corrected my spelling of “weasle” in a column[here](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/000721.html) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/46 "2002-07-01T03:08:55Z")
About 12 years ago, I wrote a report for an employer. He was happy with it but saw fit to point out a spelling error. I had spelled _environment_ as I had always done as _envirement_. Was I ever embarassed, perhaps even depressed. Never again. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/47 "2002-07-01T03:29:50Z")
I don’t misspell many words, but when I do, they’re usually typos that are consistent. So I use the AutoCorrect and AutoFormat features to fix them for me. I’m smart and lazy. 🙂 Any alternative spellings (like cancelled) go into the spell-checker, as do common names. Now _punctuation_ is a whole 'nother story. Robin ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/48 "2002-07-01T03:38:54Z")
One way or another, I always spell incorrectly, well, incorrectly in one way or another. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2002, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069/49 "2002-07-01T12:21:19Z")
I almost always spell (when typing) because as “becasue”, and relieved as “releived”. It drives me nuts, becasue I am conscious(sp??) of this problem, and yet continue to do it with alarming regularity… Which mean I have to go back and correct all instances of it… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-always-misspell-be-honist/116069.md?page=2)