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Spelling. It’s the bane of some people’s existence. For others, it’s a point of pride. No matter where you fall, there are certain words in the English language that makes literally no sense. Thanks to the fact that English is not so much a language as three stolen vocabularies and a few versions ofShow More
Spelling. It’s the bane of some people’s existence. For others, it’s a point of pride. No matter where you fall, there are certain words in the English language that makes literally no sense. Thanks to the fact that English is not so much a language as three stolen vocabularies and a few versions of grammar hiding in a trench coat, we end up with some oddly spelled words.
We’ve compiled 25 of our favorite words that no one can seem to figure out, and we’re putting them in front of you to see how well you can spell common, but challenging words. If you’re a master speller, these words should be no problem. But for us mere mortals? We may have some trouble figuring out how to spell them.
Test your skills with these 25 commonly misspelled words and see if you’re a genius, or if you should be using spell-checker.
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They say that ____ makes the heart grow fonder.
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Absance
Absence
Abcense
Abcess
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When Jiminy Cricket is on your shoulder, you are ___.
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Conscientious
Conshiencious
Contienshous
Conscientous
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Something that's a special right is a ___.
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Privelige
Privelege
Privilege
Privalege
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When you do something that makes you blush, you feel ___.
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Embarrassed
Embarased
Embarrased
Embarassed
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If I'm very certain of something, I might say that it's ____.
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Defenite
Definite
Definate
Definit
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This word has an absolutely unknowable number of s's and c's. How do you spell it?
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Occassion
Ocasion
Ocassion
Occasion
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They say that _____ is 9/10s of the law.
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Possesion
Posession
Possession
Posesion
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Which one of these words would you use if you wanted to say that something belongs to them?
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There
Their
They’re
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I'm not mad. I'm just ____.
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Disapointed
Disappointed
Dissapointed
Dissappointed
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In life, there are no _____.
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Garuantees
Garentees
Garantees
Guarantees
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Ok this one is a little bit tricky because it is French, but if you're very fancy you might pass around ____.
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Hors d’oeuvres
Hors derves
Ordeurves
Hor d’ourvees
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What's a thousand years?
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A milennium
A millenium
A millennium
A milenium
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If you don't know about something, what are you?
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Ignant
Ignorant
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What comes after today?
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Tommorrow
Tomorrow
Tommorow
Tomorow
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Feel the ___, feel the rhyme, get on up it's bobsled time!
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Rythem
Rhthm
Rhythm
Rhythem
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Let's say you're trying to spell all these words and you use a pen and paper. What are you doing?
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Riting
Writting
Writeing
Writing
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Imagine you're writing a paper and you took just a little bit of it from Wikipedia. What did you do?
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Plagiarize
Plagierize
Plagerize
Plaigerize
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Oh dang! That very stinky person does not have particularly good _____.
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Hygine
Hygene
Hygiene
Hiygeine
Higeine
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Many would agree that Wonder Woman is quite ________.
What did you get? Let us know in the comments!