Words that look wrong

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entrepeneurism

― erik, Friday, 19 November 2004 08:12 (nineteen years ago) link

asphalt

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

minute

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 22 November 2004 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

separate

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

flit

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

guard

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 17:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Throatwobbler Mangrove

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

albeit

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

the word "sword" has always bugged me.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

a capella
privilege

i probably spelled both of those wrong.

― Maria (Maria), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

gubernatorial

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

definite
dude

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

ONE

― z "R" s (Z S), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

comptroller

― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link

If you were in a spelling bee and you had to spell ONE, without ever seeing it before, you would be completely helpless.

― z "R" s (Z S), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link

rhythm

― myspace password secretary (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link

drinkability

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link

CUPBOARD, ffs

― collardio gelatinous, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

vacuum!

― carahNYC, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 04:06 (fifteen years ago) link

rough bough cough dough

― Disco/Very (Roz), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link

went

― snoball, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link

sandwich.

― what U cry 4 (jim), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link

obfuscate

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

lots

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link

abstruse

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link

profligate

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

perfunctory

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

there's lots of them!

― henry s, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link

numskull

― StanM, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link

Speaking of the Fiery Furnaces... "fiery." Why not "firey"?

Also judgment (some people spell it that way), wilful, sacrilege.

― Josefa, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link

queue, thwart, banal, blurt

― carahNYC, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Lopadotemakhoselakhogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakekhymenokikhlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptokephalliokigklopeleiolagōiosiraiobaphētraganopterýgōn always seemed pretty fishy to me.

― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link

"stomach" looked completely wrong to me as a kid for a long time. I remember being baffled over a Peanuts strip with the word in it. I knew what it was saying, and what it meant, but I couldn't reconcile the "ach" part which I thought had something to do with "ache".

― akm, Thursday, 13 November 2008 03:50 (fifteen years ago) link

fuchsia

― Maria :D, Thursday, 13 November 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link

sugar

― moley, Thursday, 13 November 2008 04:01 (fifteen years ago) link

Pet Rescue
Petrescu

― StanM, Monday, 17 November 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link

toupée

Doesn't exactly count because it's french, but...

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 17 November 2008 17:40 (fifteen years ago) link

― M.V., Monday, 17 November 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link

wednesday

― DI HERE (PappaWheelie V), Monday, 17 November 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link

etiolate

― Aimless, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link

i was just thinking this about "awhile" yesterday. i was telling someone when the correct time was to use "awhile" was (as opposed to "a while" "for a while" etc) and i looked it over and was just like...wait, that can't be how it's spelled. "awhile"? wtf is that?
obv i knew that it was spelled that way, but i guess some words just look weird sometimes

― Kevin Keller, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link

anyway, i think people are veering toward "words that are spelled unconventially and/or difficultly" rather than "words that look wrong"
great thread idea though

― Kevin Keller, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link

gorge

― Aimless, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link

Vegetables

― polyphonic, Monday, 17 November 2008 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link

Once
Massacre

― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Monday, 17 November 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link

quash

― henry s, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link

eighth (h-t-h or t-h-t?)

― not a Georgia peach but a Maryland crab (j.lu), Monday, 17 November 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link

teh

― M.V., Monday, 17 November 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link

thousandth

― henry s, Monday, 17 November 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link

lustre

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Friday, 21 November 2008 06:04 (fifteen years ago) link

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