List of 204 Words That Are Hard to Spell
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We've all been stumped by the spelling of tricky English words. Here's a list of words that are hard to spell; learn them by heart and never misspell them again.
a lot | definitely | liaison | pycnogonid |
abacaxi | demitasse | library | qiviut |
Abgesang | dhole | license | questionnaire |
abiuret | discipline | logorrhea | receipt |
acceptable | drunkenness | maintenance | recommend |
accommodate | dumbbell | malfeasance | reference |
acquiesce | dvandva | maneuver | referred |
acquire | Dzungar | mbira | relevant |
acquit | eczema | medieval | rhathymia |
advocaat | egueiite | memento | rhotacismus |
aitch | Eichhornia | millennium | rhyme |
aloisiite | embarrassment | milquetoast | rhythm |
amateur | eudemonic | miniature | rijksdaalder |
antediluvian | exceed | minuscule | sacrilegious |
apparent | exhilarate | mischievous | schedule |
atheist | existence | misspell | schokker |
atlatl | experience | mlechchha | separate |
autochthonous | feuilleton | Myxosporidiida | sergeant |
bdelloid | fiery | ngege | sforzando |
believe | fjeld | ngwee | sgabello |
bellwether | foreign | noticeable | shanghaiing |
bhikku | foudroyant | occasionally | sjambok |
bobbejaan | gauge | occurrence | soubrette |
calendar | gnathonic | onomatopoeia | staphylococci |
cassioberry | gneissoid | pastime | stichomythia |
catapleiite | gnomonic | periscii | supersede |
category | gnosticize | perseverance | surveillance |
cemetery | grateful | personnel | svedberg |
changeable | guarantee | pfeffernuss | synecdoche |
chauffeur | harass | pfennig | taaffeite |
chhatri | hierarchy | phalaenopsid | taeniid |
chiaroscurist | humorous | phthalein | takkanah |
chlorophyll | idiosyncrasy | phthisis | teonanacatl |
chrematistic | ignorance | playwright |
their/they're/there
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chrysanthemum | immediate | possession | threshold |
chthonic | independent | precede | tjaele |
cixiid | indispensable | precocious | twelfth |
Cnemidocoptes | inoculate | principal | tyranny |
cnidoblast | intelligence | privilege | unconscious |
coelacanth | irascible | pronunciation | Ursprache |
collectible | its/it's | prosciutto | vacuum |
column | jewelry | prospicience | vengeance |
committed | jharal | pschent | vignette |
conscience | judgment | psephology | Volksraad |
conscientious | Kharijite | pseudaxis | vrbaite |
conscious | khedive | psittaceous | weather |
consensus | kiekie | psoriasis | weird |
courtoisie | Kierkegaardian | ptarmic |
Weltanschauung
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ctenii | knaidlach | pterodactyl | ylem |
cywydd | Kwakiutl | ptosis | ytterbium |
daiquiri | leisure | publicly |
zwetschenwasser
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