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Terrible City Spellings Accepted by JetPunk

Can you guess the correct spelling of these cities based on a terrible spelling which is typically accepted by JetPunk?
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First submittedMarch 12, 2021
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lasangas
Los Angeles
sopolo
São Paulo
millwalkie
Milwaukee
boardux
Bordeaux
losville
Louisville
duesaladorf
Düsseldorf
mini apples
Minneapolis
albakrunkie
Albuquerque
edingbobsleigh
Edinburgh
philedelffea
Philadelphia
marsiele
Marseille
johaneusborg
Johannesburg
danpasser
Denpasar
cassablanka
Casablanca
mellberne
Melbourne
siny
Sydney
meddilen
Medellin
thesollonaca
Thessaloniki
fortolaisa
Fortaleza
tenjen
Tianjin
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100 Recent Comments
Dontneedone
+36
Level 80
Apr 11, 2021
"edingbobsleigh" haha
TomGreene16
+10
Level 38
Feb 8, 2023
edinbengalurugh
MG17
+23
Level 43
Apr 11, 2021
Sopolo? Wow. But and Sri Jellyfish Tempura?
Lambdaspicot
+3
Level 69
Dec 16, 2021
It's in the capital cities one
wielblad
+36
Level 66
Apr 11, 2021
I'm surprised 'sopolo' isn't a type-in for 'Sapporo'! I was trying to make Abidjan go for 'ibadan' - doesn't seem worse than some existing options and the actual answer isn't far off the misspelling.
ZashaTheLickiras
+1
Level 60
Apr 11, 2021
I thought the same thing.
Nachtschicht
+4
Level 59
Apr 13, 2022
Yes, I also thougth about Sapporo
JohnnyYeet
+6
Level 66
Apr 11, 2021
Accept Bengaluru?
determinedtobeatthis
+13
Level 68
Apr 11, 2021
Trying to figure that first one out, though! Thinking to myself, "Is there a town called Lasagne?"
ericsp23
+12
Level 99
Apr 11, 2021
I thought it was the Swiss city Lausanne. Los Angeles didn't even occur to me.
overtired
+3
Level 88
Apr 11, 2021
I always use it now, just because it's easier to type, and I think "lasagna" every time :)
sacheth9
+14
Level 65
Apr 15, 2021
Kaz overtired has great quizzes Stan is accepted for Kazakhstan lol
bestanford
+5
Level 73
Apr 18, 2021
It's also called Thessalonica, so that spelling isn't SO terrible.
ChineseChen
+15
Level 70
May 7, 2021
mini apples...
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Sep 25, 2021
Lots of food is accepted I guess.
Pholidoscelis
+24
Level 81
May 21, 2021
For Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, and Tajikistan, you can first write 'Kaz', "Kyrg' and 'Taj' respectively and write anything you want and then finish it in 'Stan'. eg. 'Taj said hello to Stan'

For Federated States of Micronesia, you can just include 'Micronesia' in your response and it will work. eg. 'During the holidays, I visited Micronesia'

Dollyfroggy
+14
Level 63
Sep 25, 2021
Similarly for Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte you just need Sri J and pura, so Sri Jellyfish Tempura was born.
AntiMatter8192
+2
Level 78
Sep 4, 2022
Hah, you missed SJK
xarnac
+4
Level 71
Apr 13, 2022
So if you copy and paste this entire comment into the countries of the world quiz, you'd get Micronesia as a correct answer. Wild
thread
+1
Level 67
Apr 23, 2022
Actually you'd get Kazakhstan because it's first :)
xarnac
+1
Level 71
May 20, 2022
See for yourself
thread
+2
Level 67
Apr 21, 2023
Oh yeah, sorry. a year later
motmot
+8
Level 70
Jul 2, 2021
albakrunkie lol
bserbvb23
+7
Level 87
Mar 8, 2022
The Edinburgh one is amazing
angrobper14
+3
Level 86
Mar 8, 2022
I just had to check if that worked...

It freaking worked!!!!!

jayhiatt
+7
Level 72
Mar 8, 2022
Although the Düsseldorf one is still spelled wrong, the "ue" makes sense, as that is an acceptable alternative spelling of "ü," and probably more accurate than "Dusseldorf," which would be pronounced differently without the umlaut.
partdavid
+2
Level 74
Aug 19, 2025
It's an interesting case, because "Duesseldorf" is the "international" spelling of the German name of the city, "Düsseldorf."

You can make a strong case that the name of the city in English is "Dusseldorf." However, in that case, the name in the answer should be Dusseldorf, not Düsseldorf. And--it's not so simple, because English has a way of inconsistently preserving but ignoring diacritics--they don't form a different spelling the same way they do in other languages. And in English it wasn't so long ago you might see a dieresis with a function, in coöperate, for example.

It's quite inconsistent and not always clear where to draw the line. It also happens a lot more with more rarely-known nouns for which there isn't really a common English name. But it also depends on "how foreign" something is, which is why you rarely see İstanbul instead of Istanbul in English; or matters of random taste, which is why naïve is probably more common than façade.

Djilas
+4
Level 86
Mar 8, 2022
I guess not Philly, but Duesseldorf should definitely be accepted, it's just an alternate spelling.
Morpioniste
+1
Level 68
Mar 31, 2022
Yup, I always thought that adding an e after a vowel that should have an umlaut was the standard way to do it if your keyboard doesn't have umlauts, though a German friend said he just ignores the umlaut and doesn't bother with the e either
cornflakesfu
+3
Level 89
Mar 8, 2022
I did an equivalent quiz for countries a while back.
Findlay
+1
Level 80
Mar 8, 2022
Ah, this gave me a laugh. Especially Edinburgh. Good work.
Ryanlee
+1
Level 77
Mar 8, 2022
Isn't Lasagnas supposed to be the alternate spelling for Las Vegas? lol
tarajso
+3
Level 66
Mar 8, 2022
Edingbobsleigh almost made me choke on my water!
Jerry928
+3
Level 76
Mar 9, 2022
Accept type-ins?
VITU
+6
Level 65
Mar 9, 2022
I LIVE in São Paulo hahaha

When I realize this could be the answer I was like "it's not possible..." HAHAHAHA

Qikiq
+8
Level 89
Mar 9, 2022
Looking at the badly spelled one made me forget how to spell them correctly. I had to figure out what city it was and then look away in order to type the correct name.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Mar 9, 2022
exactly...for the life of me i couldn't spell Minneapolis.
gustavo11
+2
Level 73
Mar 9, 2022
I am now in love with the "edingbobsleigh" spelling
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Mar 9, 2022
Thessalonica should also be accepted. It is the English spelling of the Greek city.
enessaglik
+1
Level 62
Mar 10, 2022
maybe you shouldn't
MG17
+3
Level 43
Mar 14, 2022
Fortolaisa... I feel drunk here
AlmostAGenius
+4
Level 89
Apr 11, 2022
I took this quiz thinking how could people be so stupid. Then I got to the last question and couldn’t figure out why Tanjin wasn’t accepted.
rosina
+1
Level 60
Apr 13, 2022
That was very fun, thank you
RomeToRiyadh
+2
Level 74
Apr 13, 2022
This really made my head hurt...Loved it!
bebn123
+3
Level 61
Apr 13, 2022
I said A! L! B! U! ... ... ... ... QUERQUEEEEEEEE!!!
Tadeu
+1
Level 68
Apr 13, 2022
I'm from Brazil and I would NEVER guess tha Sopolo is supposed to be São Paulo, I'm laughing so hard.
Midgaf
+1
Level 58
Apr 13, 2022
Edingbobsleigh is even tougher to write than the real one, I don't get these people
clivey
+3
Level 69
Apr 13, 2022
I think it just accepts starting with Edin, and ending in gh.. like Kyrgyzstan you it just needs Kyr and Stan, you could wright Kyrghelloisitmeyourelookingforstan, and get it. Edinbobsleigh did make me laugh though!
danstorm
+2
Level 68
Apr 13, 2022
Mini apples! I LOVE IT
overtired
+5
Level 88
Apr 13, 2022
Me too, tasty and portable. Great for a pocket snack.
shingen
+1
Level 86
Apr 13, 2022
here's a case where actually being able to speak the language was a hindrance to guessing the answer -> even after the answer reveal, the disparity between "tenjen" and the _real_ pronunciation was so great, I never would have been able to guess
Nachtschicht
+1
Level 59
Apr 13, 2022
Nice idea! I actually found some spelling-mistakes in my own type-ins.
DrumHead510
+3
Level 52
Apr 13, 2022
Ain't no way "mini apples" is accepted for Minneapolis. That's too funny
JohnnyYeet
+1
Level 66
Apr 13, 2022
Maybe Duesseldorf? Another alternate spelling
GrenDolphin79
+3
Level 44
Apr 13, 2022
mini apples !!
InterAlia
+4
Level 83
Apr 13, 2022
I've never laughed so hard taking a quiz. Wow!
overtired
+1
Level 88
Apr 13, 2022
Glad you enjoyed it :)
autoparts2
+2
Level 51
Apr 13, 2022
And whadaya know, I spelled multiple correct cities wrong on a test to tell you how to spell them.
music99
+1
Level 56
Apr 13, 2022
thet whes phone
Centauri
+1
Level 33
Apr 13, 2022
absoloot osam kuis O-O
coeurdechoeur
+2
Level 80
Apr 14, 2022
ah kant eevan wthi thus kwezze
VinMaps
+7
Level 77
Apr 14, 2022
Mini apples, it's the biggest city in Mini soda.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Apr 14, 2022
Spelled Denpasar with as Denpansar... Somehow I missed both of the first two haha. I was convinced 'tenjen' was 'tianviane' until I realized it's 'vientiane'.
DukeOfLorraine
+6
Level 67
Apr 15, 2022
"A mini soda would have been nice" - Ronald Reagan
thread
+3
Level 67
Apr 23, 2022
"Couldn't you at least give me a larger soda?" - Walter Mondale
Barun1000
+1
Level 35
Apr 25, 2022
I don't know why but this quiz made me laugh. Those spellings were way fun.
patyawi
+1
Level 70
Apr 30, 2022
How on earth do you accept Edingbobsleigh???
YouLoveEagle
+3
Level 49
Jun 1, 2022
These spelling are so bad I can’t even tell what city it is
RealDad12
+2
Level 67
Jun 21, 2022
More, please.
iRDM
+2
Level 81
Jul 16, 2022
made a reaction video to this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2SGCktFEGc

Still giggling at Lasangas. Great quiz.

elcampeador
+1
Level 77
Jul 19, 2022
I can't laugh TOO hard because a lot of my usual accepted spellings are not correct either, I come to find out
DHA
+5
Level 63
Aug 12, 2022
sopolo i thought meant Sapporo
taximaxi9
+2
Level 26
Nov 5, 2022
who misspells burgh for bobsleigh?!
Nickelz
+2
Level 69
Nov 8, 2022
Why didn't I realize that of course you wouldn't accept type ins? I thought i could outsmart the quiz and type the hint in as the answer.
Iggy1
+3
Level 53
Dec 9, 2022
Type ins like this are ridiculous for us of those who want to actually learn to spell the countries or cities, correctly, maybe not this bad, but for a while I thought Israel was spelt “Isreal” because I used JetPunk, and that is an acceptable type in. There should be an option to turn type ins off.
partdavid
+1
Level 74
Aug 19, 2025
I think there are two categories of type-ins: 1. Correct alternate names/spellings and 2. Misspellings.

I agree it would be nice to set the latter off; however, the way the answers are specified are fairly deeply embedded in quiz creation and I think it would be a lot of work to enable for a largely marginal benefit to a handful of people. It might make sense to have a quiz attribute that enabled you to toggle which set of patterns to accept for the answer. It could apply to new quizzes only. But then you have the issue of comparing statistics for "hard" or "easy" mode quizzes, and how to present that.

So you might as well make a new quiz, as you can now, ("World Capitals with strict spelling") but maybe the fact that people aren't creating and taking large numbers of these quizzes means maybe it's no so popular an idea after all.

But yes, I agree it would be nice to have the option.

KennethTAA
+1
Level 61
Dec 9, 2022
i couldnt tell what cities some of these are trying to be lol.
papelakiwi
+1
Level 59
Dec 18, 2022
very good and fun quiz thanks.
TomGreene16
+1
Level 38
Feb 7, 2023
Utidontknowwhattoputherevik?
BlackJohn
+2
Level 79
Mar 6, 2023
The fact that I speak Greek, understood finally thosolinca or whatever the misspelled one is, tried Thessalonica which I thought is the typical English spelling and gave up without trying the transliterated version is simply hilarious.
RJG
+1
Level 63
Apr 21, 2023
17/20. I've been spelling Milwaukee as Milwakee for years without noticing.
Nickelz
+4
Level 69
Apr 25, 2023
I think JetPunk is horribly lax with type ins.
Stiner
+2
Level 95
Jul 7, 2023
When you answer the incorrectly-spelled word with another incorrect spelling of the city name...

I kept trying "Sidney" and wondering why it wasn't working, then wondering what other city it could be - Chennai? Sinai? Is that even a city?

Pandryf
+1
Level 63
Jul 12, 2023
I typed "Medelin" and "Tiencin" and found out I didn't know the correct spelling :(
deebte
+1
Level 64
Aug 23, 2023
i am personally offended by lasangas we are not lasagna bruh lasagna sucks also when did there become a city called denpasar
jeffar
+1
Level 66
Aug 30, 2023
So if you say "Johanessburg" it's not accepted, but you accept johaneusborg?
barmanitan
+7
Level 84
Sep 27, 2023
This is the moment I learn Sao Paulo is in fact not spelled Sao Paolo...
MCdoesgeography
+2
Level 74
Dec 10, 2023
Me too lol
hgost
+1
Level 45
Jan 29, 2024
I spent most of the time figuring out and eventually giving up how to spell Thesolonnaiki or whatever
FNWY4life
+3
Level 74
Apr 20, 2024
Edingbobsleigh? Really?
or1998
+1
Level 56
Oct 6, 2024
spell Albequerque correctly next time. It's an e, not a u.
fuanacdc
+10
Level 89
Oct 7, 2024
It really isn't
overtired
+8
Level 88
Oct 7, 2024
If only there were an easy way to look it up before making such a comment.
MeMeMe333
+1
Level 71
Feb 4, 2026
Type it out and see if auto-correct does something?
ooftownroad
+7
Level 70
Mar 3, 2025
r/confidentlyincorrect
Stickmanz
+3
Level 38
Apr 13, 2025
Mini Apples XD 😂😂😂😂
Allysally12
+1
Level 59
Sep 10, 2025
can never type naypidaw
ProbablyANerd
+1
Level 46
Oct 11, 2025
Edingbobsleigh 😭
Albrik
+2
Level 66
Jan 28, 2026
You wrote Düsseldorf, which is Duesseldorf, you should accept it
mac9kenny
+1
Level 34
Apr 8, 2026
lol mini apples
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