What word is mostly spelled wrong?

Accommodate” was the most commonly misspelled word on both Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com in 2021. Kelly believes this word tops both lists because it's so hard to remember that both the C and the M are doubled. With both consonants doubled like that, it almost looks wrong, but it's correct.


What are the 20 most misspelled words?

20 most commonly misspelt words in English
  • Separate.
  • Definitely.
  • Manoeuvre.
  • Embarrass.
  • Occurrence.
  • Consensus.
  • Unnecessary.
  • Acceptable.


What is the #1 misspelled word?

The majority of English-speaking countries, the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia, each have "coolly" and "minuscule" listed as their most-misspelled words, according to WordTips.


What are 5 difficult words?

As a follow up to our article on confusing words, here are ten of the most difficult words in English.
  • Literally. If you know a language purist, watch out. ...
  • Ironic. ...
  • Irregardless (instead of regardless) ...
  • Whom. ...
  • Colonel. ...
  • Nonplussed. ...
  • Disinterested. ...
  • Enormity.


What is world's hardest word?

7 most difficult English words that will let you forget what you wanted to say
  • Rural. ...
  • Sixth. ...
  • Sesquipedalian. ...
  • Phenomenon. ...
  • Onomatopoeia. ...
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. ...
  • Worcestershire.


Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly



What are the 10 hardest words to spell?

Top 10 Hardest Words to Spell
  • Weird.
  • Intelligence.
  • Pronunciation.
  • Handkerchief.
  • logorrhea.
  • Chiaroscurist.
  • Pochemuchka.
  • Gobbledegook.


What are 3 commonly misspelled words?

Other “ance” and “ence” words that are commonly misspelled: guidance (not guidence) occurrence (not occurrance. perseverance (not perseverence)

What is the hardest spelling bee word?

Top Ten Most Brutal Spelling Bee Words
  • Soubrette. Year: 1953. ...
  • Albumen. Year: 1928. ...
  • Eudaemonic. Year: 1960. ...
  • Chiaroscurist. Year: 1998. ...
  • Autochthonous. Year: 2004. ...
  • Insouciant. Year: 1951. ...
  • Staphylococci. Year: 1987. ...
  • Foulard. Year: 1931. Origin: This word is from French.


What should a 12 year old be able to spell?

able, aftermath, afternoon, appear, attack, attend, bicycle, breakfast, brightly, cabbage, cable, carpenter, channel, circle, climb, comfort, comical, confirm, construct, curtain, customer, damage, decide, delight, disappear, discover, empty, encourage, entertain, equal, exactly, forever, fruit, fuel, group, guard, ...

What is a tricky word?

Tricky words are words that early readers will struggle with. This might be because they have unusual spellings, contain new sounds and graphemes or don't follow ordinary phonemic rules. Many tricky words are ones that we use often, so it's important to teach kids how to spell and pronounce them.

What is the longest weirdest word?

1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters) Pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of very fine silicate or quartz dust.


What word takes 3 hours to spell?

The longest English word

The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.

What is the longest 1 word?

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

What is the hardest American word to say?

The word onomatopoeia is a jumble of vowels and is probably the most difficult English word to pronounce. It is pronounced [on-uh-mat-uh–pee–uh], and it defines a word that imitates a sound.


Which is the shortest word?

The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.

What is the least known word ever?

The 20 least known words in English
  • genipap.
  • futhorc.
  • witenagemot.
  • gossypol.
  • chaulmoogra.
  • brummagem.
  • alsike.
  • chersonese.


What is America's longest word?

It is the chemical name for titin, the largest protein known. The longest word in the English dictionary however, is the 45-letter word "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis", which refers to a lung disease. Doctors call it "P45".


What is a big confusing word?

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is "an invented long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust".

What are the red words?

Red Words are irregular words that do not follow a particular pattern. Red Words can also be high-frequency words that students must learn before the specific concept has been taught. IMSE uses the term Red Word because the visual color red reminds students that these words are irregular.

What are heart words?

Irregularly spelled words are called “Heart Words” because some part of the word will have to be “learned by heart.” Heart Words are also used so frequently that they need to be read and spelled automatically. Examples of Heart Words are: said, are, and where.


Does spelling affect IQ?

We have a long history of linking spelling skills to intelligence. We think people who can't spell are ignorant, illiterate, or stupid, despite having research dating back to the 1970s that shows that there is no significant association between spelling ability and intelligence.

Can most 3 year olds spell their name?

Some children will learn to write their name when they are 2 or 3 (this is rare, don't feel like your 3 year old should be able to write their name) while others are still having difficulty when they are in year 1 (this is something that I would certainly be working on, but I see it often enough to know its common).