# What words do you misspell every single time you type them? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 9, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561 "2009-12-09T04:19:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/1 "2009-12-09T04:19:35Z")
Guarunteed Neccessary Aquisition Recieve Reconnasance Don’t know why these words haunt me so badly. I just can’t spell them correctly without slowing down and thinking about it and when I’m typing I don’t like doing things that slow me down. ---
**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:** [December 9, 2009, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/2 "2009-12-09T04:24:03Z")
Beleive and beleif - I often mistype these even though as soon as I see them I can see they’re wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/3 "2009-12-09T04:33:05Z")
I consider myself to be good speller, and I would swear it’s supposed to be spelled seperate but spell check says it’s supposed to be separate. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/4 "2009-12-09T04:53:07Z")
I rarely misspell anything, but sometimes when writing fast I’ll have what I call thinkos instead of typos–it’s/its, they’re/their are my two worst. I know which one’s correct. Unlike principal/principle, which I have to thing about and, occasionally, look up. Also I used to have bookmarked a site called “lie vs. lay.” I cannot type the words hopsital and sould. That is, hospital and soul. And when most people mis-type “the” it comes out as “teh” but mine comes out “theh” more often than not. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/5 "2009-12-09T05:24:14Z")
Restaurant. I always want to spell it restaraunt. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/6 "2009-12-09T06:12:15Z")
Gandhi. I keep wanting to spell it “Ghandi.” I know, proper noun and all that, but still. Accommodate. I always forget the other M. I’m probably figuring that since there’s the double C, that’s enough. Nope. I always used to spell “traveled” or “traveling” as “travelled” and “travelling.” I heard somewhere that the latter are British spellings. Is this true? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/7 "2009-12-09T06:13:59Z")
teh ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/8 "2009-12-09T07:06:03Z")
ratio is always ration for me. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/9 "2009-12-09T07:15:36Z")
> [@Shalmanese](#): > > ratio is always ration for me. I do this, too. “Concentration” always comes out “concnetration” the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Donut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@Donut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Donut)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/10 "2009-12-09T07:49:58Z")
Subpoena Why I need to spell this all the time is a different matter… ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/11 "2009-12-09T07:56:40Z")
restaurant - always leave out the ‘u’ occasionally - always add a second ‘s’ there’s others, but naturally I can’t remember ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/12 "2009-12-09T08:22:40Z")
Manoeuvre. I simply cannot spell that word correctly, ever. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/13 "2009-12-09T08:42:22Z")
I do almost every single one of these misspellings myself! I put most of them down to actual sound vs actual spelling not matching up thanks to the english language.:rolleyes: Well, actually teh is a typing finger problem from what I understand. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/14 "2009-12-09T08:55:48Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I\*\* rarely misspell anything\*\*, but sometimes when writing fast I’ll have what I call thinkos instead of typos–it’s/its, they’re/their are my two worst. I know which one’s correct. > > Unlike principal/principle, which I have to \*\*thing \*\*about and, occasionally, look up. > > Also I used to have bookmarked a site called “lie vs. lay.” > > I cannot type the words hopsital and sould. That is, hospital and soul. And when most people mis-type “the” it comes out as “teh” but mine comes out “theh” more often than not. ..and typing “thing” instead of “think” I guess I’d better add. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/15 "2009-12-09T10:31:45Z")
Rhythm. I had to look it up. I cannot, _cannot_ spell that word. Every time I have to spell it I kid myself I have managed to burn it into my brain but next time I try, I can’t do it. The funniest one in my life is “tub goat”. A colleague maritime lawyer has this very bad habit of committing this typo consistently, and now I use the term in my head as a kind of internal private joke. ---
**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/16 "2009-12-09T10:35:40Z")
governemtn - I can spell it, but I can’t type it. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/17 "2009-12-09T12:40:53Z")
Accommodation ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/18 "2009-12-09T12:58:18Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > Rhythm. I had to look it up. I cannot, _cannot_ spell that word. Every time I have to spell it I kid myself I have managed to burn it into my brain but next time I try, I can’t do it. YES! My first thought. And “definitely” always becomes “definetely”. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/19 "2009-12-09T12:58:20Z")
Insurance always comes out “insurnace” the first time I type it. It’s not a misspelling, just a typo; for some reason my fingers refuse to strike the keys in the right order. Every goddam time. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/20 "2009-12-09T13:16:59Z")
Most words with an ‘ie’ somewhere start out being typed with an ‘ei’. Words with double letters often end up with the letters after those being doubled up as well. Football normally comes out as foottball, for example. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561.md?page=2)