Words you can never spell correctly

Embarass.
Occasionally.
Hemorrhaging.
Your turn.

fiel = file
beleif = belief
beleive = believe
many others, these are the most common.
It is dislexia :smiley: of the fingers.
dislexia = dyslexia

communicatino

One would hope you rarely use these words together, anyway! :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue:

I have the same problem with *embarrass * and ocassion. Right now, I’m looking at them and I’m only somewhat confident ocassion is spelled correctly. Well, that or I remembered the wrong way to spell it again.

Referral gives me fits. This is not good when you are a teacher and have to write the word fairly often. At least I can always scare up a discipline referral form to check.

Maintainance. Maintenance. I can never remember which one is right.

Occurring… Ocurring… Occuring? Got me.

All of them.

I used to be a good speller, but then Microsoft Word started marking words on the fly when I got them wrong. This dramatically lowered the attention I pay, apparently, since the only penalty for getting them wrong is having to go back and fix it – there’s not much chance of actually missing the error altogether.

Newer versions of Word replace common misspellings with the corrected version silently! I keep meaning to turn that feature off; there’s nothing worse for learning than not even knowing you got something wrong.

And yes, I had a paranoid moment and had to check the spelling of “misspelling” in this post.

I was having trouble with “occurrence” only yesterday. One C or two? One R or two? I tried all the variations, and it never looked right, and then I started to wonder if it was ‘ence’ or ‘ance,’ got hopelessly muddled, and had to resort to the dictionary.

I have a similar trouble with the internal consonants in “occasion” (And I see that other people do too).

Words that have the vowel combination eu/ue (neutral, pneumonia) also give me difficulty. It doesn’t look right either way.

SKWIRL

Especially the flying kind.

I think that if it is longer that 5 letters I probably spell it wrong. I don’t think I ever passed a spelling test I didn’t cheat on. But on the bright side I did get very skilled at cheating :wink:

Spell-check is my friend

Diahr…diha…diarra…diarrhea. I think that’s it.

Frustrated. I always add an extra e in the middle even though I know it’s wrong. I get frusterated. I mean frustrated. Then I couldn’t spell tomorrow for ages, iono how I suddenly got that…

hors d’ouevres (is that right? it doesn’t look right)

reservoir

judgment

and OP

Somehow yours words seem to go together. :smiley:

restaurant always comes out restaraunt, at best.

Is it a trick that embarrass is spelled wrong in the OP? Have I been whooshed?

I honestly don’t know if they’re spelled right or not. I was just having a moment of frustration with spelling and typed the OP. I didn’t look any of them up. (Still haven’t, been busy.)

That’s the correct American spelling; “judgement” is the British spelling, if I understand correctly. So it’s understandable if you get this one wrong.

Ahh, that explains my confusion. Thank you, Thudlow.

accommodation.