Can you spell America’s most misspelled words? I saw this tweet via Google Trends recently, and it got me thinking that maybe America needs to ditch Candy Crush Saga in favor of Scrabble if we’re struggling with most of the words on this list. Are “special” and “beautiful” and “surprise” really that difficult?

 

Alabama: pneumonia
Alaska: schedule
Arizona: tomorrow
Arkansas: chihuahua
California: beautiful
Colorado: tomorrow
Connecticut: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Delaware: hallelujah
Washington: ninety
Florida: receipt
Georgia: gray
Hawaii: people
Idaho: quote
Illinois: pneumonia
Indiana: hallelujah
Iowa: vacuum
Kansas: diamond
Kentucky: beautiful
Louisiana: giraffe
Maine: pneumonia
Maryland: special
Massachusetts: license
Michigan: pneumonia
Minnesota: beautiful
Mississippi: nanny
Missouri: maintenance
Montana: surprise
Nebraska: suspicious
Nevada: available
New Hampshire: difficult
New Jersey: twelve
New Mexico: bananas
New York: beautiful
North Carolina: angel
North Dakota: dilemma
Ohio: beautiful
Oklahoma: patient
Oregon: sense
Pennsylvania: sauerkraut
Rhode Island: liar
South Carolina: chihuahua
South Dakota: college
Tennessee: chaos
Texas: maintenance
Utah: disease
Vermont: Europe
Virginia: delicious
Washington: pneumonia
West Virginia: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Wisconsin: tomorrow
Wyoming: priority

Look at the list and tell me what you think. Admittedly, “pneumonia” confuses me a little, because I want to write the “u” first since that’s the sound my ear hears. But if I remember to think “knee-u-monia” as I spell it, that helps. I often find that with words I second-guess, getting it on paper is a quick way to see if I’ve got it right or wrong. My eye will quickly tell me if something is off because I have a sort of photographic memory and know how a word looks when it’s correctly spelled.

Do you have any tricks or tips to share that help you to spell out certain words? Are you surprised by the words on Google’s list that people find hard to spell?