# Words you spell wrong every single time. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 25, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168 "2008-08-25T03:20:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/1 "2008-08-25T03:20:33Z")
Neccessary Aquisition Guaruntee Absorbtion Recieve ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/2 "2008-08-25T04:27:52Z")
bureaucratic I even have a hard time getting close enough for spell checking to recognize it enough to make a suggestion recipe while my recipes tend to come out right, the word never does thorough and throughout not spelling-challenged per se, but I tend to lose my place syllable-wise ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/3 "2008-08-25T04:50:14Z")
Embarrass. One “r,” every single time, unless I look it up. grrrrrr… ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/4 "2008-08-25T04:53:17Z")
Accomodate. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/5 "2008-08-25T05:14:57Z")
Apparently. I never can remember if it’s the p or the r that gets doubled, which is strange because I use the word a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/6 "2008-08-25T05:20:20Z")
weird ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/7 "2008-08-25T06:00:23Z")
“Wrong,” of course. _d&r_ ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/8 "2008-08-25T06:15:15Z")
Restaurant. I recently got tired of not remembering how, so I finally broke it up into rest, au, and rant. So I get it right about half the time, now. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/9 "2008-08-25T06:20:48Z")
I always want to add an extra “s” to occasion. I also sometime transpose the “s” and the “c” in “license,” but it immediately looks wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/10 "2008-08-25T06:37:48Z")
[QUOTE=Bosstone] Accomodate. [/QUOTE] I once lost a spelling bee with this one in primary school, so it’s been burnt into my memory banks ever since. I always have trouble with the two forms discrete/discreet. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/11 "2008-08-25T07:33:58Z")
Spell check is the best invention that ever was created! I can look up a word, close the dictionary, and immediately forget how it was spelled. It is horrible. Oddly enough, I am now very good at noticing when a word is misspelled…it is correcting it that is the problem. Plus, I always hated dictionaries…how the hell was I supposed to look up the spelling if I didn’t know how to spell it? Thank you for spell check! Thank you, thank you, thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/12 "2008-08-25T07:39:00Z")
Anything ending with _tly_. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/13 "2008-08-25T08:21:41Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Anything ending with _tly_. [/QUOTE] or with _gry_. That makes me … well, you know. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![grey\_ideas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dfb087/32.png) [@grey\_ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grey_ideas)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/14 "2008-08-25T09:27:41Z")
Since I’ve just used this in a post…“separate”, or how I invariably end up spelling it “seperate”, phonetic vs actual spelling always used to throw me for a loop when I was a kid and some of it has carried over. As an aside, I’ve had two weird ‘blind spots’ when I was at school. I was what they called then ‘top streamed’ for Maths and English (three tiers of class for each subject of which I was the highest in each) BUT I couldn’t spell very well and I couldn’t do my times tables very well. At the start of every Maths class our teacher used to make us do a five minute randomised 10 x 10 times table square (up to the 20 times table) and I never finished it. Even to this day if I’m asked or I need to know what, for example, 9 x 6 is I break it down to work it out, my thought process is “2 x 9 = 18, 18 x 3 = 54”. …thankfully my spelling has got better, mostly! ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/15 "2008-08-25T11:05:39Z")
Belief, believer, beliefs, etc ( and yes I did just misspell and have to correct one of them again ). I always seem to reflexively spell them with an “ei” and not an “ie”. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/16 "2008-08-25T11:32:47Z")
Exercise. I cannot get this word right in fewer than five tries. I can’t figure out if there is a “c” after the “x”, or whether it’s spelled with a “z” or an “s”. I had to try every iteration I could think of just to make this post. Floccinaucinihilipilification? Antidisestablishmentarianism? No problem. But “exercise” gives me fits. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/17 "2008-08-25T11:56:22Z")
Neighborhood and Rennaisance. see? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/18 "2008-08-25T12:01:56Z")
Accommodation is my bête noire. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/19 "2008-08-25T13:41:09Z")
[QUOTE=grey\_ideas] Since I’ve just used this in a post…“separate”, or how I invariably end up spelling it “seperate”… [/QUOTE] This is what I came here to say – I’ve yet to figure out the particular mental block that goes with this one ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168/20 "2008-08-25T14:15:11Z")
[QUOTE=Merhouse] This is what I came here to say – I’ve yet to figure out the particular mental block that goes with this one ☹ [/QUOTE] I just recently learned there’s “a rat” in separate. Vaccuum is one of mine (or is that vacuum?) And I use it often in my job (the word, not the appliance.) There are a couple more than aren’t coming to mind right now. I think “weird” and “friend” are up there. I’ll check back when I come across them while typing today. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-spell-wrong-every-single-time/461168.md?page=2)