Do you make these common spelling mistakes?

Quillbot's commonly misspelled words
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When I think “embarrassing searches,” they’re not … those kinds. They’re the ones where I’m trying to figure out how to spell a word I definitely should know how to spell. I’m not alone. We all use search engines as a dictionary these days.

But which words are the hardest to spell? The folks at unscrambled words (a Scrabble cheater/helper site) looked at a year of Google Search data to spill the beans.

Do you struggle with any of these?

  1. Restaurant – 95,000 searches
  2. Pneumonia – 13,000
  3. Appreciate – 11,000
  4. Receipt – 9,700
  5. Beautiful – 9,400
  6. Niece – 9,200
  7. Maintenance – 8,500
  8. Bougie – 8,300
  9. Diarrhea – 8,200
  10. Congratulations – 7,100

Words I’m surprised didn’t make the top 10:

  • Calendar (I commonly see this written as calender)
  • Conscience (that S and C every time)
  • Sergeant (not sargent)
  • Embarrass (all those double letters are tricky)
  • Guarantee (this one is easy to mess up)
  • Accommodation (the Cs and Ms get you)

If you have a Scrabble or Wordle fan in your life, be sure to pass along this fun story to them.

Tags: Dictionary, Google, Scrabble, search engines, searches, spelling, Wordle