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These words are misspelled. See if you can guess the correct spellings.
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First submittedJuly 6, 2011
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Athelete
Athlete
Hygenic
Hygienic
Celcius
Celsius
Independant
Independent
Priviledge
Privilege
Catagory
Category
Sophmore
Sophomore
Absorbant
Absorbent
Pilgramage
Pilgrimage
Oddessy
Odyssey
Hallaluja
Hallelujah
Fourty
Forty
Indespensible
Indispensable
Yamaka
Yarmulke
Summersalt
Somersault
Camoflage
Camouflage
Bellweather
Bellwether
Paraphenalia
Paraphernalia
Labratory
Laboratory
Occassionaly
Occasionally
Cemetary
Cemetery
Grammer
Grammar
Mischevious
Mischievous
Noticable
Noticeable
Perogative
Prerogative
Aquit
Acquit
Daqueri
Daiquiri
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100 Recent Comments
Zefyrinus
+9
Level 74
May 21, 2013
Gah! I almost didn't get yarmulke because "yamaka" looks nothing like it. It sounds Japanese. :/ And segue I didn't get because I had no idea what it was, and since segway is a thing. And bellwether I had no idea what it was. :(
DorkmeisterBlu
+14
Level 75
Nov 11, 2013
I had no idea what Yamaka was supposed to mean? Yarmulke I know...
divantilya
+21
Level 36
Jul 3, 2019
I kept trying for the Japanese motorcycle company "Yamaha"..
JackintheBox
+5
Level 82
Oct 16, 2020
I thought it was a piano company.
cabinetmanz
+1
Level 38
Jan 7, 2026
It’s both lol
nightowl
+2
Level 65
Jan 21, 2014
I'm sure I entered Hallelujah several times but it was not accepted. Was curious to know the answer
Wassboss8
+2
Level 83
Apr 24, 2014
Not very hard when chrome gives you an auto spell option. Al I had to do was type in the incorrect spelling of the word and it underlined it in red and gave me the correct spelling. Only missed 4 because of this. :)
ColoHarpare
+12
Level 49
Apr 29, 2014
Yeah, but that's totally cheating! What's the point?
TheWombat
+23
Level 72
May 28, 2014
Crikey! If I was using auto-correct and still missed 4 I'd keep that to myself, I reckon ;o)
JackintheBox
+6
Level 82
Oct 16, 2020
Congratulations! not
Rachel24601
+4
Level 45
Jun 7, 2014
I've never seen athlete misspelled that way. Do some people pronounce it with three syllables or something? I've never heard that.
ColoHarpare
+3
Level 49
Aug 6, 2014
LOTS of people say "ath-a-leet", at least in the western US.
GOFREOPANDAS
+2
Level 14
Oct 2, 2014
gotta love auto correct
Quizzer6794
+1
Level 66
Mar 24, 2015
O and did anywun noteice that ewe spelld the werd "spell" rong?
akwildrose
+1
Level 50
Jul 1, 2015
It took me a bit to figure out what the heck "yamaka" was supposed to be. Once I figured it out what word it was supposed to be, I knew how to spell it. Missed a few others, though.
Hominka
+9
Level 81
Mar 11, 2016
I know how to spell 'yarmulke', but had no idea what word was being asked for. Should have an explanation for that one. Like:

Yamaka (Jewish hat).

Emilie9263
+3
Level 14
Mar 17, 2016
Speaking french kinda helps for words like "athlete", "hygienic", "privilege", "category" and a few others. We sure have our spelling failures too, but french pronounciation of these words tells us the answer.
MasterKenobi
+1
Level 65
Feb 3, 2017
You misspelled pronunciation... ;)

Great English, though!

lenbread
+1
Level 59
Dec 9, 2025
great english, bad language

where did the 'o' go... and the 'e' in judgement...

Jerry928
+6
Level 76
Apr 12, 2016
This quiz doesn't seem to accept any type-ins.
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
Aug 7, 2016
Heh heh
sleekcollins
+4
Level 67
Sep 23, 2016
All this time I've been thinking mischievous is spelled mischevious? My life's been a big lie.
mariposita
+3
Level 69
Nov 24, 2016
Took me a while to figure out what the heck Yamaka and Aquit were supposed to mean.
LyRiKH
+4
Level 51
Dec 10, 2016
Good quiz. Yamaka as a clue not the best choice if it represents another word/thing spelled correctly. 27/27
svitapeneela
+3
Level 64
Jan 22, 2017
Only missed "Bellwether", 'cos I've never heard of it!
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
Jun 17, 2019
hadnt either, but figured it would be wether or whether.
RealDad12
+2
Level 67
Jan 22, 2017
I had enough time left to try a few possibilities for yarmulke and daiquiri, but none of them stuck. Damn! >:-(
leopard9090
+2
Level 79
Jan 22, 2017
you should add antarctica
travelfan
+5
Level 67
Jan 22, 2017
Foreign speaker, managed to get them all (although cemetery made me sweat a bunch) except Yamaka. For the life of me I had no idea what the right word was supposed to be. I had seen the word Yarmulke before and knew what it was, but I had no idea that the pronunciation could be similar and wouldn't have made the connection.
Devondragin
+2
Level 51
Jan 23, 2017
It's kind of difficult to spell some of these words could you accept more alternate spellings?
Devondragin
+1
Level 51
Jan 23, 2017
haha jk
Corrode
+6
Level 60
Jan 23, 2017
Got them all but I don't think yamaka/yarmulke is a very good clue. Like a lot of others, I got it by sounding it out, but the misspelling isn't very suggestive of what might be intended.
MeiHotaru
+4
Level 28
Jan 24, 2017
I mean no offence when I say Yarmulke is something only Jews would get
RobNobody
+7
Level 80
Mar 28, 2018
I'm not Jewish, and I got it right away.
kogatora
+4
Level 96
Feb 10, 2019
^^ you underestimate the awareness of Jewish culture in our world
HyddenRizz
+4
Level 67
Sep 18, 2022
*in the USA

Whenever I watch US TV shows, there's so many Jewish references. It's not a bad thing (although sometimes the references are not too positive)

But there's not as much bearing on your religion in some other parts of the world as there is in the USA.

PigLatin
+1
Level 28
Jan 25, 2017
Lol I just typed in the misspelled work and used auto correct to fix it
Thorvald
+3
Level 73
Feb 5, 2017
Some ideas for the next part: donut instead of doughnut, honor instead of honour, fall instead of autumn... ;)
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
Jun 17, 2019
ouch... your comment has been here a year and a half allready and no flame war has started yet haha
JoshuaGreen
+5
Level 23
Feb 5, 2017
Didn't know Yamaka and wasted a lot of time typing Jamaika, Jamaica, Jameika, Jameica, ... then gave up.
eibi
+4
Level 80
Feb 10, 2017
This quiz reminds me of my years learning English on shortwave radio. There was this station from the US, quite noisy reception, two guys shouting at each other, they were really excited... every other sentence ended with the words "Hey, man!"

At least that's what I thought. A few weeks later that station came through much clearer and I realized what they were (still) yelling: Amen!

prestissimo
+2
Level 46
Jul 8, 2017
Autocorrect helps so much with this quiz, it's great...
RealDad12
+1
Level 67
Mar 13, 2018
My only two mistakes I made when I last did this quiz back in Jan 2017 were yamaka and dacqueri and they were the only two mistakes this time. Grrr.
hq21
+2
Level 73
Mar 28, 2018
Why you think I'm in this b***h wearing a f*****g yarmulke
RollingThunder46
+1
Level 30
Mar 28, 2018
where is there they're and their
payel123
+1
Level 37
Mar 28, 2018
Mispelled is mispeleld
HPaddict
+1
Level 27
Nov 7, 2018
I got all of the words right I had actually heard of before, which was most of them. sooo...
Anzi
+1
Level 68
Nov 7, 2018
Anyone else try ‘Grandma’? :)
KrazyKookieKing
+2
Level 47
Feb 17, 2019
This was a chalenging quizz and i misd alot of them. I let Gramrly doo most of the speling.
blizzrd33
+4
Level 81
May 9, 2019
I can safely say that I have never misspelled Yarmulke, because I've never heard of that name before this quiz.

Judging by the number of comments here and the low percentage of users who even understood what this clue was about, I'd say it might be time to remove this question and replace it with something else.

Jozi
+1
Level 75
May 20, 2019
Seeing the words I spell correctly written incorrectly made some of the words harder to guess. I kept pronouncing "aquit" wrong - took me a minute to recognize it. Guessing without a sentence to put it in context is hard
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Jun 26, 2019
I suspect auto correct does quite well on this quiz.
DrIlluminati123
+1
Level 33
Jul 3, 2019
I guess I kinda beat the system by doing this on Chrome web browser where I right clicked on the answer box to spellcheck
kalbahamut
+7
Level 79
Jul 3, 2019
Most quizzes on the website are easy if you cheat.
pmeplant
+2
Level 49
Oct 22, 2019
That quiz was humbling, I kept thinking Yamaka was either a city in Washington state or a Japanese motorcycle.
Xtrordinary
+3
Level 75
Dec 3, 2024
That'd be Yakima and Yamaha
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Feb 10, 2025
Hence "misspelled".
Mcasslicker
+1
Level 34
Oct 29, 2019
When you type it as its spelt then right click to get it right. Lol
EytanMelech
+1
Level 66
Dec 19, 2019
Can you please be more lenient on spelling in this quiz?
Zenelle
+2
Level 47
Feb 26, 2020
I think the misspellings confused my mind on some and I couldn't get them right xD
SMFlex
+3
Level 54
Apr 24, 2024
I see the misspellings, and am like, isn’t that actually how you spell it? I’m normally really good at spelling but the way our brains read it you just see it and can’t get it out of there.
UltraEl1te
+1
Level 37
Sep 10, 2020
What about Business, while people spell it Buisness
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Apr 28, 2025
It should really be busyness! ;)
svelte
+2
Level 50
Oct 26, 2020
You can also spell somersault summersault.
EvanAviator
+1
Level 61
Nov 8, 2020
on Mac safari it automatically autocorrects my words XD
IsleAuHaulte
+2
Level 92
Dec 1, 2020
I can't imagine anyone familiar with the Englishman's pronunciation of laboratory replacing the first O with an A.
RJF
+1
Level 67
Nov 28, 2022
Well, anyone except an American or a Canadian, really. Never heard anyone else pronounce it that way. And let's be honest, 'laboruhtry' makes a lot more sense than 'labratuhry', because -tory is such a common suffix that it adds no value to put the emphasis on it.
BMDragon
+1
Level 85
Dec 28, 2020
Thank you autocorrect
FaroPor
+1
Level 60
Feb 8, 2021
Remember, Grammar is your Grandma but since Grandma doesn't have any E's so you write an A instead of a E. 😉
LuigiDood227
+1
Level 72
Mar 25, 2021
What about Liechtenstein?
KainenManas
+1
Level 96
Mar 29, 2021
THIS HURTS MY EYES! (great quiz though)
tbolt
+1
Level 79
Jul 27, 2021
I got a zero. I thought all the words were spelled correctly
vermiciousknid
+1
Level 91
Jul 27, 2021
I got it right, but I've never understood why a word spelled yarmulke is pronounced like yamaka. What's that about?
madmonte
+1
Level 71
Jul 27, 2021
lol did not get acquit. To be honest, I didn't even know that's the word you were going for! Aquit is such a bizarre spelling for that!
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Jul 27, 2021
Daiquiri was easy cuz I remember the jelly bean flavor
jmellor13
+1
Level 68
Jul 27, 2021
"How do you say 'banana daiquiri'?" "Banana daiquiri."
Randomperson1
+1
Level 46
Jan 4, 2022
Auto-correct gang
pokecrossing494
+1
Level 36
Feb 3, 2023
def not me nope not at all😳
TCubes
+3
Level 33
Aug 8, 2022
i love that grammar is on a quiz

about mispelling…

pokecrossing494
+1
Level 36
Feb 3, 2023
what the heck is a yarmulke
brandybuck96
+3
Level 82
Nov 17, 2023
scroll up a bit and you'll find out
JustinRS
+2
Level 59
Jun 21, 2023
i didn't just try belvedere for bellweather....
larrao
+1
Level 45
Oct 1, 2023
somersault can also be spelt summersault though
equivallent
+1
Level 54
Nov 18, 2023
anyone else never heard of paraphinalia, yamaha, perrogative and daquieri or am i just stupid
thehumanism
+1
Level 26
Dec 9, 2025
I have heard of paraphernalia and prerogative in my AP Lit class lol
orange3472
+1
Level 72
Apr 24, 2024
I think the correct spelling is "Sematary"...at least that's what Stephen King told me
drinkBeerBeFree
+2
Level 49
Jul 11, 2024
tf is a "yamurkle"
Sinope
+1
Level 55
Oct 5, 2024
Challenging quiz. I prevailed! #SpellingBeeChampion
oregon
+1
Level 35
Nov 6, 2024
100% with a little under 2 minutes left :3
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Dec 3, 2024
Can you accept indispencible for indispensable?
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Feb 10, 2025
And indespensible?
jbro
+2
Level 76
Jun 19, 2025
Why is this quiz giving me a crisis 😭
Scratch4Logan
+1
Level 29
Aug 28, 2025
At first I managed to only get out on "yamaka" as "yarmulke", because I couldn't tell what "yamaka" was supposed to be. As I did the quiz a second time, I got "yamaka" right and 100%'d the quiz.
Koopa
+1
Level 88
Dec 7, 2025
"Mischievous" can also be included on a "commonly mispronounced" quiz as well. There's no extra "i" in the word, yet a lot of people pronounce it that way.
Amaya75622
+3
Level 32
Dec 7, 2025
I didn't know what "yamaka" was trying to spell but I do know how to spell "yarmulke"
funniman9
+1
Level 37
Dec 7, 2025
"Wait that's the wrong spelling?" -Me, 2025
JonOfKent
+1
Level 61
Dec 8, 2025
I doubt very much that Yarmulke is commonly misspelt as I find it hard to believe that it is commonly spelt at all. I've never needed to spell it in my life.

Also, the correct spelling is "panaphralia", as any fule kno

thehumanism
+1
Level 26
Dec 9, 2025
honestly I never in my life spelled paraphernalia wrong cuz it is spelled the way it sounds

para, fer(but pher), nalia

Lithian5032
+1
Level 59
Feb 28, 2026
thank you call of duty for helping me remember how to spell daiquiri
SuperGrouper
+1
Level 52
Apr 28, 2026
Pilgrimage? Must be a Nine Inch Nails reference (I am insufferable)!
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