What is it called when a word looks weird?

It’s just a common brain glitch called wordnesia. This problem crops up when you can’t spell the simplest words. When familiar words suddenly seem like the strangest things. We don’t know what exactly happens in the brain when wordnesia occurs, but some researchers have an idea.

What is the #1 misspelled word?

Accommodate. “Accommodate” was the most commonly misspelled word on both Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com in 2021. Kelly believes this word tops both lists because it’s so hard to remember that both the C and the M are doubled. With both consonants doubled like that, it almost looks wrong, but it’s correct.

What are the 5 hard words?

7 most difficult English words that will let you forget what you wanted to say
  • Rural. …
  • Sixth. …
  • Sesquipedalian. …
  • Phenomenon. …
  • Onomatopoeia. …
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. …
  • Worcestershire.

What are the top 100 misspelled words?

100 Commonly Misspelled Words
correct spellingnotesmisspelling
achievei before eacheive
acrossone caccross
aggressive-gg-agressive
apparently-ent-apparantly

Why is people spelled with an o?

People entered Middle English through the Anglo-Norman poeple, people, peple and restricted the native Germanic word folk to narrower usage. The Anglo-French word had a vowel probably similar to the Modern French peuple [ö], a rounded vowel foreign to English phonology.

What words are commonly mispronounced?

The 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words, Explained
  • AcaĂ­ [ah-sigh-EE]
  • Chiaroscuro [kee-ahr-uh-SKYOOR-oh]
  • Flautist [FLOU-tist]
  • GIF [jiff]
  • Mischievous [MIS-chuh-vus]
  • Niche [neesh] or [nitch]

What is the most difficult word to pronounce?

The word onomatopoeia is a jumble of vowels and is probably the most difficult English word to pronounce. It is pronounced [on-uh-mat-uh–pee–uh], and it defines a word that imitates a sound.

What are the 10 most annoying mispronounced words?

Here’s a list of the top 10 most irritating pronunciations:
  • Pacifically instead of specifically – 35%
  • Probly instead of probably – 28%
  • Expresso instead of espresso – 26%
  • Specially instead of especially – 25%
  • Artick instead of arctic – 19%
  • Nu-cu-lar instead of nuclear – 19%
  • Tenderhooks instead of tenterhooks – 18%

What is the hard word?

A semi-technical term for a difficult WORD of foreign origin: for example, azimuth, hierophant, munificence, perigee, Vedanta. Early English dictionaries, especially in the 17c, that explained such exotic words by means of everyday words, came to be known as hard-word dictionaries.

Why do British add R to words?

Linguists have called this phenomenon the “linking r.” Because of the tendency to pronounce an “r” when it occurs between vowel sounds, many of these same speakers go a step more and add an “r” where it doesn’t belong, once again between two vowel sounds.

Is the L silent in Almond?

More recent standard dictionaries say we can now properly pronounce “almond” either with or without the “l” sound.

Which word is always pronounced incorrectly?

The answer for “What 11-letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?” Riddle is “incorrectly”. The word incorrectly has 11 letters and that word is always pronounced incorrectly. Riddles are fun and more beneficial. You will imagine more than one way to solve this kind of riddle.

How do you pronounce GIF?

“It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF.” Just like the peanut butter. “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Wilhite told The New York Times. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.

Why is the l in salmon?

The word comes ultimately from the Latin salmon, but we got it by way of French, as we did with so many other food words. The French, as was their wont, had swallowed up the Latin L in their pronunciation, so by the time we English borrowed the word, it was saumon, no L in the spelling and so no L in the pronunciation.