Words that are hard to spell for no reason
What are the top 100 misspelled words?
100 Commonly Misspelled Words
| correct spelling | notes | misspelling |
|---|---|---|
| achieve | i before e | acheive |
| across | one c | accross |
| aggressive | -gg- | agressive |
| apparently | -ent- | apparantly |
What is the hardest word ever?
7 most difficult English words that will let you forget what you wanted to say
- Rural. …
- Sixth. …
- Sesquipedalian. …
- Phenomenon. …
- Onomatopoeia. …
- Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. …
- Worcestershire.
What is the most unfamiliar word?
1. Serendipity. This word appears in numerous lists of untranslatable words and is a mystery mostly for non native speakers of English. It refers to a happy and unexpected discovery or event.
What are ambiguous words and examples?
Homonyms are one class of ambiguous words, and they have unrelated multiple meanings. For example, bank means financial institution, and it also means land near the river. Polysemes are another class of ambiguous words, and they have multiple related meanings.
What Pax means?
a period of peace
Pax is defined as a period of peace. An example of pax is Pax Romana, meaning Roman peace.
What is a really weird word?
Baboonery: foolishness; stupidity; nonsense
6. Bibble: to drink often; to eat and/or drink noisily.
What’s the oldest word?
Mother, bark and spit are some of the oldest known words, say researchers. Continue reading → Mother, bark and spit are just three of 23 words that researchers believe date back 15,000 years, making them the oldest known words.