guerenteed....guarenteed? No, it's spelled guaranteed.

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    What words do you struggle to spell? I can't spell guaranteed without looking it up. I just brain farted for about five minutes. Definitely one of the most difficult words for me to remember how to spell.

    Also maintenance. I literally can't remember how to spell it. I always see the red squiggles when I spell it out.

    Honestly, one of the most difficult words are the ones that have a few too many vowels. I don't have dyslexia, but sometimes, my brain mixes up the order of words in my head. But these two words just trip me up more than others.
     
    me literally every time i try to spell a word the british way where i'd have to replace the "z" with an "s".

    like, i'd want to say words like "realise" or "rationalise" (or any sort of "-ize/ise"), but i'm never sure whether the "s" is appropriate there or not. @__@
     
    Any I before E words, especially if they're an exception.
     
    I struggle with occasionally on occasion. Sometimes I try to spell it ocassion or occasionnally and it's like... Why are there so many of the same letter anyway? >.> I also occasionally will have issues with words that have tant/tent in it. Like consistent vs constant. 'Constant' I get right always, but sometimes my brain says, "ah yes, consistantly" or "intermittantly". I used to have problems with restaurant, but once I started pronouncing it differently in my head (rest-OUR-ant), it alleviated my misspelling. Since I write a lot, I rarely find words that trip me up anymore; and I'm always getting better at spelling so I'm sure that, someday, these words won't bother me.

    I'm sure there are others, but I usually don't think about them until I happen to be writing and attempt to spell one out.
     
    I came here to say occasion but looks like its been said! There are a lot of words I probably would fudge the spelling for without autocorrect. I almost always have to correct my spelling of conscientious, embarrassing, accommodate.. I'm very grateful for spell check. :D
     
    Ressource/Resource. Both legitimate spellings of the word, except: different languages.

    Also apparently I like to write legitemate instead of legitimate? Necessary I always end up writing with two c, as well. And there's a lot more where that came from. <_<
     
    I guess it's the perfect occasion to say I often struggle with "across" as I'm never sure whether it has one or two cs.
     
    I don't know how to spell coincidence. This thread is the first time I've done it without spell checker, which was sheer luck.

    I was trying to spell it in another post and it came out coidenence.
     
    I also have a lot of trouble with maintenance and maintain. I have a problem with French in general because 90% of letters in French aren't actually pronounced at all, making it a very annoying language to deal with it sometimes.

    Not English, but the one case I just more or less gave up trying to spell correctly a long time ago in my native language are the 4 "porques", even though I do know the rules (and why those rules are there) by heart by now.

    Por que -> why
    Por quê -> why, but at the end of a sentence
    Porque -> because
    Porquê -> reason

    I just go with "porque" for all four of those because nobody cares and context is enough 99.999% of the time.
     
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