# Words that you ALWAYS misspell **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 21, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297 "2001-08-21T04:46:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sasquatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Sasquatch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sasquatch)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/1 "2001-08-21T04:46:46Z")
Somewhat in the spirit of [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=82389), what are words that you always misspell? I’m sure I’ll think of more later, but for now:[ul][li] **definitely** (even though I know that it has the word “finite” in it, I always type it as “definately”)[/li][li] **calendar** (I keep wanting to type “calander”, and they both always look wrong to me)[/ul][/li]Any others? ---
**Author:** ![gorewonfla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@gorewonfla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gorewonfla)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/2 "2001-08-21T04:59:25Z")
I used to misspell: Independence: I finally learned it because it’s a street in DC, where I lived for a while. Separate: I got this by remembering there’s a rat in separate. I turned my college math teacher’s face red when I corrected him on this ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/3 "2001-08-21T05:11:45Z")
thier or is it their? Dammit!!! ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/4 "2001-08-21T06:45:12Z")
I’m spelling a lot of words incorrectly since I got a computer. Friggin’ spell check. Similarly Particularly (doesn’t one of those have an “i” in it?) the list goes on and on, but not here, because I’m tired and can’t think at the best of times ---
**Author:** ![Ferggie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@Ferggie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferggie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/5 "2001-08-21T10:12:12Z")
Necessary or necessarily. Probably misspelling it right now. Guarantee. And I’m a copy editor and should know better! ☹ ---
**Author:** ![okielady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/fbc32d/32.png) [@okielady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/okielady)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/6 "2001-08-21T12:27:13Z")
I always have to spell check when I type niece, even though it uses the “i before e except after c” rule, it still never looks right to me. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/7 "2001-08-21T12:55:35Z")
**definitely** is one of mine. I also, since I can’t touch type, have this thing where I constantly mistype “ng” as “gn”. I’ve no idea why it happens, but it does. I know that’s not the same as misspelling, but it happens a lot. ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/8 "2001-08-21T13:16:34Z")
Character? ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/9 "2001-08-21T13:20:29Z")
I used to spell tomorrow as “tommorow”… I have gotten out of that one, thankfully. ---
**Author:** ![Outrider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9d8465/32.png) [@Outrider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Outrider)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/10 "2001-08-21T14:07:43Z")
**Successful** - One l or two l’s in the end? I can never be sure **Address** - I always forget which letters there are two of. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/11 "2001-08-21T14:39:21Z")
**Restaurant** …or it is **restaurent**? That one always looks wrong no matter how I spell it. I recently realized that I had been spelling **exercise** wrong. I kept spelling it as **excercise** , and someone finally corrected me. Sometimes I spell **definitely** wrong, but I think it’s a habit I picked up from reading stuff on the internet. [hijack] We recently discovered at work that all of our computers have bad spell check programs. (We’re using Windows 2000, so maybe it has a bug or something). I noticed it when someone handed in a report that had about a zillion words spelled wrong. I made a little note saying, “Please remember to spell check.” They said they had. I checked it out on my computer and it missed at least a third of my mistakes. Not completely related to this thread, but it is a pain in the ass. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/12 "2001-08-21T15:01:22Z")
I misspell more words when typing, than I do writing with a pen. I also think the list of the words I spell correctly, is shorter than the ones I speel incorrectly. Problematic words, naturalization, wednesday, incendiary, illuminary, Czechoslavakia, supercalifrajilisticexpialidosouis. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/13 "2001-08-21T15:30:25Z")
“The”, and any other word that contains the t-h-e combination. For some d\*mn reason it always comes out as “teh”. I’ve sometimes had to correct it three or four times in a row. My fingers just can’t seem to get that one right. ---
**Author:** ![x27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/7993a0/32.png) [@x27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x27)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/14 "2001-08-21T15:38:21Z")
Every time I type “write” it comes out “writhe”. And I frequently type “nad” instead of “and”. Suggestive typos, no? ---
**Author:** ![23skidoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f04885/32.png) [@23skidoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/23skidoo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/15 "2001-08-21T15:48:53Z")
I have come to accept the fact that I may never learn to spell these words correctly: British: (I want to spell it Brittish) restaurant: (I want to spell it restuarant) ridiculous: (I have to remind myself that the base word is “ridicule”, or else it gets spelled “rediculous”) ---
**Author:** ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/16 "2001-08-21T18:14:57Z")
gnsd sd ddkjha d 'ouiuj;m87 po425789 423,34gh5. Ayz smeiyh hddnv,s sy032 ; ‘s khs mc,s s dko w9043o pds,. /saz’ ds gnrx ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/17 "2001-08-21T18:37:18Z")
Almost every time I type the word “soul” I type “sould.” My fingers just find it natural to add the extra D. ---
**Author:** ![toshirodragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e68b1a/32.png) [@toshirodragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toshirodragon)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/18 "2001-08-21T18:57:16Z")
Anything with the ie combination in it! Sheessh! also niave naive??? double letters throw me when typing half the time I double the prior letter/leeter…truly appaaling ---
**Author:** ![panzermanpanzerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9bcb4/32.png) [@panzermanpanzerman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panzermanpanzerman)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/19 "2001-08-21T19:05:16Z")
Exercize. Excersize. Excersise. Exersise. I have no idea which is correct. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Stealth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2001, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297/20 "2001-08-21T19:13:08Z")
I always have a problem with the word **apparently**. No matter how I type it it never looks correct. I can’t spell **tomorrow** without looking at it twice either. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-you-always-misspell/77297.md?page=2)