Bougie-used to the priviledged life.
No. No, it’s not. It’s mucus, not mucous.
Executioner - someone who executes a person under sentence of death.
Executor - someone appointed to carry out the provisions of a will.
Executer - not a word
Executive - someone who would do well at the end of a rope.
OK, so maybe I deserve to take partial responsibility for @TriPolar’s error. Way up thread, from almost a year ago, I had this post:
When I wrote that post, I knew that “mucus” was a noun and “mucous” was an adjective - but I mistakenly wrote that both were nouns.
So, to set the record straight:
Mucus: a noun referring to a slick/gooey material secreted by various parts of an organism.
Mucous: an adjective specifying some kind of connection to mucus. Mucous membranes secrete mucus.
Sorry for fomenting confusion.
Nope. All my fault. Hoisted by my own batard.
Now I have a mental image of Shohei Ohtani smacking you skyward with a loaf of bread.
Got called out here several years ago for spelling disingenuous as disingenious. Just swap out one vowel for the other, slap an additional prefix on the front, and I had always assumed that it, like ingenious, was simply based on the root genius. I mean, nobody ever says someone was genuous, and I didn’t know that the stock innocent waif in a lot of plays and films and whatnot was called the ingenue.
In looking up the term ingenue just now, I learned that it only applies to girls/women; the corresponding word for boys/men is ingenu (though this is not widely known and so ingenue is frequently used for either gender).
genius: spirit of a person, place, etc.
genie: a type of invisible creature
(d)jinn: a bunch of them
jann: singular again…
tort: a legal wrong or injury which may be redressed by the awarding of damages to the victim
torte: a cake-like dessert
tart: a pie-like dish that may be sweet or (rarely) savory
tarte: a tart from an expensive pretentious bakery
Torturous: causing or involving severe agony. “This is a torturous medical procedure.”
Tortuous: causing or exhibiting a high degree of twisting and turning. “This is a tortuous race track.”
imitation: likeness, simulation
intimation: announcement, declaration, hint
Taut - tight
Taught - educated
Intimidation - threatening behaviour or speech
Let’s invent one–
An “executioner” is someone who executes professionally-- probably a guild member, maybe schooled, certified or licensed, where such is available.
An “executer” [EX-e-cu-ter] is a non-professional pressed into performing an execution ad hoc.
The similar word, “executor,” is stressed on a different syllable [ex-EC-u-tor].
Darth Vader’s flagship was named the Executor, but I think “Executioner” would have been better. 
I learned this one yesterday: amend and emend. You see these words a lot in crossword puzzles.
To amend something means to change it, for any reason To emend something means to change it in order to fix an error or problem. So every emend is an amendment, but not vice versa.
precession: precedence; change in the motion of a spinning body
procession: the act of progressing; people or things in sequence
…and, just after I posted this, I encountered another precede/proceed mistake!
dogie: a calf
doggy: a canine
abrogate: to annul, do away with
arrogate: to usurp
palpitation: the sensation that one’s own heart is beating erratically
palpation: medical examination by feeling parts of the body with the hands
yeah: informal expression of agreement (“Yeah, I need to lose weight.”)
yay: expression of happiness or excitement (“Yay, we’re getting a puppy!”)
yea: an affirmative vote (“The yeas and nays have been counted.”)