# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/61 "2009-12-13T05:43:21Z")
The name “Chris”. I always, without fail, add a “t” at the end. ---
**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:** [December 13, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/62 "2009-12-13T18:30:58Z")
The name of the town I live in, Englewood. It always comes out “Engelwood.” I’ve seen it typed that way on envelopes, legal documents and even TV blurbs. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/63 "2009-12-13T18:55:29Z")
In addition to many already mentioned… “Golf” very frequently becomes “gold.” I also have to type the word “dairy” a lot, and I have to be careful not to type it “diary.” Both of these misspellings are a pain in the ass, because, of course, gold and diary are legitimate words. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/64 "2009-12-13T23:44:57Z")
Standard Ends up Stabdard, Standrd, or something \*really \*off. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/65 "2009-12-13T23:49:29Z")
existance ---
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2009, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/66 "2009-12-14T01:44:57Z")
I misspelled my username so much that before I realized it was missing a vowel I had signed up with its current form in about 4 sites. It was supposed to be “joaozito”. Too late now. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/67 "2011-12-13T20:01:18Z")
Sorry to bump an old thread, but my thread would have been identical to this one. I have realized over the past little while (weeks?) that I _cannot_ spell the word “cylinder” to save my life. I spell it with every vowel combination I can think of and it still gets that squiggly underline until I finally click to see the correction and then say “DOH! of course!” Then five minutes later I’ll do the same thing. It doesn’t stick. And in general I’m a very good speller. I also often typo between the words “sign” and “sing” but that isn’t really over spelling but too-fast typing. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/68 "2011-12-13T20:43:32Z")
I am a pretty good speller, although I made a post about hemorrhoids yesterday and had to look that up. But my PhD thesis advisor was just about the worst speller I have ever seen. I took a course from him in which the word “kernel” was used over and over and he always (and I mean invariably) put on the same performance. “k-e-r-n------------(hmm, I always misspell it and I think the next letter is an e so it must be an)-a-l”. Every time! Once he was doing a proof by induction and started, "Having choosen [titters] (oh, did I spell that wrong and someone told him it was “chosen” and he corrected it)…we now chose… This really happened. Another word that defeated him was “division” (he would write “devision”). But he was a fine mathematician and a superb teacher. Gone now for just about 12 years. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/69 "2011-12-13T22:08:26Z")
“Weird” always looks…well, you know…to me. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/70 "2011-12-13T22:09:59Z")
disappear, cancelation, ridiculous, calendar ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/71 "2011-12-13T23:12:31Z")
Two year old zombie? ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/72 "2011-12-13T23:31:14Z")
Definately zomby. I mean zombie. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/73 "2011-12-13T23:52:05Z")
Sargeant Stupid “e”. Outta be an “a”. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/74 "2011-12-14T00:07:32Z")
I put the “a” in “responsable.” Sigh… (And, in a very recent pit thread about Ayn Rand, I kept writing “Atlast Shrugged.” Had to correct it several times!) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/75 "2011-12-14T00:12:50Z")
Good speller here, but I almost always type “remeber” for “remember.” . ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/76 "2011-12-14T00:23:02Z")
> [@Caught\_Work](#): > > Two year old zombie? Apologized for that in my first post. But people have told me recently that this is what I should do rather than starting a new thread to ask. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/77 "2011-12-14T00:40:42Z")
Millennium always gets me. I simply cannot burn its spelling in my head. Apocalypse. I always want to seem to type it with two Ps. Vinyl. I always have to stop and think, “which is first, the ‘i’ then the ‘y’ or the other way around?” The only reason any of these are spelled correctly is because of autocorrect on my iPad. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/78 "2011-12-14T03:20:31Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Vinyl. I always have to stop and think, “which is first, the ‘i’ then the ‘y’ or the other way around?” Same here, also “dialysis”. And I always want to stick a “d” in refrigerator. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/79 "2011-12-14T03:37:38Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > Accommodate. I always forget the other M. I’m probably figuring that since there’s the double C, that’s enough. Nope. Remember to accommodate the other M. ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561/80 "2011-12-14T03:59:23Z")
From. When I type it, it comes out as form 99 times out of 100, even though I know I do this. And no little red squiggles ever show up because, as you know, form is also a word. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-do-you-misspell-every-single-time-you-type-them/520561.md?page=5)