# Words that seem like they are spelled wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 25, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797 "2024-07-25T22:12:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/21 "2024-07-26T00:23:24Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > No, he’s a [composer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Canteloube). I will use this as a mnemonic. Thanks for sharing – why I love this place! ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/22 "2024-07-26T02:47:08Z")
Hey, I think I’ve finally got ‘weird’ figured out, because ‘we is weird’ and so ‘weird is we’. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/23 "2024-07-26T02:54:24Z")
> [@Jas09](#): > > Rhythm takes a few seconds every time. Too many oddly place "h"s and no vowels. Well actually … 😉 This is a case where “sometimes y” comes into play. It is unambiguously being used as a vowel, there, so it is a vowel. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/24 "2024-07-26T02:58:04Z")
Embarrass. There should only be one “R”. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/25 "2024-07-26T03:19:20Z")
Propeller. I want to spell it propellor. Or is it the other way around? ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/26 "2024-07-26T03:25:28Z")
That was my word up above. I grew up with i before e except after c firmly embedded in my head. I was an adult before I learned that rule was absolute bullshit. Some would say it was a very weird rule. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/27 "2024-07-26T03:47:46Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Every time I spell professional, my mind wants to spell it proffesional. That’s more logical, right? What’s the logic? > [@pulykamell](#): > > Judgment (though the dictionary seems to allow “judgement” as a variant. But my Grammarly doesn’t like it.) My understanding is that “judgment” is the standard US spelling, while “judgement” is the standard UK spelling. Both, to me, seem to have a bit of wrongness to them, but you gotta spell it somehow. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/28 "2024-07-26T04:43:10Z")
> [@Civil\_Guy](#): > > Hey, I think I’ve finally got ‘weird’ figured out, because ‘we is weird’ and so ‘weird is we’. I just remember that ‘weird’ is spelled weird. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/29 "2024-07-26T04:49:47Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Embarrass. > > There should only be one “R”. Trips me up every single time. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/30 "2024-07-26T05:01:06Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > What’s the logic? Commitment Happening Belittlement It just seems like the double consonant should come earlier in the word. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/31 "2024-07-26T13:24:07Z")
> [@Reeses\_Monkey](#): > > That word lost me a spelling bee in 6th grade. I’ll never forget how to spell it. Even if I do agree that there _should_ be an “e.” Without the vowel, the “g” should be hard. [yes, “judgment”] I would have strode boldly to the nearest dictionary, pointed out the alternate spelling to the teacher, and demanded credit. Frankly I would have been appalled to have been declared incorrect there. Villain is the one that always gets me. Villian? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/32 "2024-07-26T14:22:35Z")
‘Necessary’ throws me off that way also. No real reason there should be two 'c’s but I often have to back up and delete an extra one. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/33 "2024-07-26T14:59:03Z")
Acquaintance. I don’t think I’ve ever spelled it correctly on my first attempt. What makes it worse is that there aren’t any perfect synonyms. Friend? No. Colleague? No. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/34 "2024-07-26T15:58:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > ‘Necessary’ throws me off that way also. No real reason there should be two 'c’s but I often have to back up and delete an extra one. Yep, that one is a tough one for me too. You would think I’d learn but I always second guess myself, and and more often than not, wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/35 "2024-07-26T16:15:42Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > Gothi. Shouldn’t that be [ghoti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti)? Or have I been whooshed? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/36 "2024-07-26T16:47:33Z")
No, gothi is a description of someone with lots of ishadow and black laci garments. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/37 "2024-07-26T17:07:08Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > ishadow and black laci garments. Don’t you mean, iShaddo and laci gharmence ? ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/38 "2024-07-26T17:46:03Z")
It always bothered me that the word traveler only has one “L”. Seemed like a double consonant in the middle makes the word have a better looking “footprint”. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/39 "2024-07-26T17:48:56Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > It always bothered me that the word traveler only has one “L”. That’s another one that’s apparently different in the US vs the UK. > **[“Traveler” or “Traveller”—What's the difference? | Sapling](https://sapling.ai/usage/traveler-vs-traveller)** > > Explanation of the difference between traveler and traveller with example usage of each in context. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-seem-like-they-are-spelled-wrong/1004797/40 "2024-07-26T17:52:38Z")
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