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IMMEDIATELY STILL
also impermeable is difficult to comprehend

calendar

I want to spell it calenDER so, so badly.

I still can’t spell immediately.

i for the life of me always fail to spell continue right. i always spell it as countine

Words such as "immersive" and "experience" are something I tend to misspell. Even words like "exception", "exercise" and "criticise". I'd spell them like this: "imerssive", "expirience", "acception", "excersize" and "critisize".

Yes, that one as well ... I swap the 'a' and the 'e' and get calander instead of calendar.

I used to have a lot of problems with definitely....Iridesc demanded their be an 'a' in there. One day an epiphany hit me, and I realized definitely included the root word finite! Soon as I realized that it was just a matter of breaking muscle memory to get it right. Maybe that would help you?

Either way....presence is my big downfall....I always want to swap the 's' and the 'c' which equates to autocorrect changing it to pretense which has never made sense in any sentence I've seen so far.

I used to have a major difficulty with effect vs affect (and, okay, sometimes I still do). Like, remembering which one to use in different situations. But then I read something that said "Affect is an action, effect is an end result" and that really helps me to remember.

Oh, ME. Nessecary... necescary? Necessary?

Necessiate or nesseciate or nessecate, ahhHHH—

Also the word liscense. Or is it license? Lisence? Liscence? What even is English.

Form and From. It may sound quite silly as they are both very simple words, but I always write an e after them making Forme and Frome

luckily I have Grammarly so I don't have to check half the time

Definiinteitly for sure. I never know how to spell that- and affect and effect are words I always mess up AHHH

Infrastructure.... I always forget the first R. I even pronounce it without the R. Infastructure. A little embarrassing since I use the word fairly often in school stuff.

I also tend to pronounce and spell permanent as pernament. And when I'm tired I often misspell "and" as "end".

That archaic U.S. temperature measurement scale of Fahrenheit. Usually autocorrection fixes it, but if left up to me, it gets an extra ‘t’ between the ‘n’ and the ‘h’.

One word that comes to mind on this topic is the word "Disappointed."

Every time I try to spell it, I get it wrong, and then it gets corrected to "Disappointingly" I'm not sure why but I can just never spell it correctly the first time.

Also, the word "apparently" use to give me a lot of trouble. Now I only get it wrong half the time instead of all the time.

Argument without adding an extra ‘e’

Criticism, definitely (though not much any more), truly (I always want to spell truely), assistance, occasionally, and others, though I don't know the whole list

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That one

embarrassing? i can never figure out how many r’s and s’s there are supposed to be

There's a lot, but the one I can think of at the moment is "pursue."

I always want to spell it "persue," and then all the things that recognize it's wrong only ever suggest replacing it with "peruse."

Oh yeah, that word... silhouette ... I tend to forget the ‘h’ as the fourth letter and put it as the fifth letter after the ‘o’... as in ‘silohuette’ ...

Then there is the whole UK/USA English Language differences with the use of ‘z’ and ‘s’, and that pesky useless ‘u’ vowel the English love throwing in after the ‘o’ vowel in so many words..... but that isn’t misspelling per-se.